Definition of Affine. Meaning of Affine. Synonyms of Affine

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Definition of Affine

Affine
Affine Af*fine", v. t. [F. affiner to refine; ? (L. ad) + fin fine. See Fine.] To refine. [Obs.] --Holland.

Meaning of Affine from wikipedia

- affine transformation is an automorphism of an affine space (Euclidean spaces are specific affine spaces), that is, a function which maps an affine space...
- Look up affine in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Affine may describe any of various topics concerned with connections or affinities. It may refer to:...
- In mathematics, an affine space is a geometric structure that generalizes some of the properties of Euclidean spaces in such a way that these are independent...
- differential geometry, an affine sphere is a hypersurface for which the affine normals all intersect in a single point. The term affine sphere is used because...
- In differential geometry, an affine connection is a geometric object on a smooth manifold which connects nearby tangent spaces, so it permits tangent vector...
- geometry, an affine plane is a two-dimensional affine space. There are two ways to formally define affine planes, which are equivalent for affine planes over...
- In mathematics, affine geometry is what remains of Euclidean geometry when ignoring (mathematicians often say "forgetting") the metric notions of distance...
- Affine logic is a substructural logic whose proof theory rejects the structural rule of contraction. It can also be characterized as linear logic with...
- The affine cipher is a type of monoalphabetic substitution cipher, where each letter in an alphabet is mapped to its numeric equivalent, encrypted using...
- In mathematics, an affine combination of x1, ..., xn is a linear combination ∑ i = 1 n α i ⋅ x i = α 1 x 1 + α 2 x 2 + ⋯ + α n x n , {\displaystyle \sum...