Affinity vs Zygon - What's the difference?
affinity | zygon |
A natural attraction or feeling of kinship to a person or thing.
A family relationship through marriage of a relative (e.g. sister-in-law), as opposed to consanguinity. (e.g. sister).
A kinsman or kinswoman of such relationship. Affinal kinsman or kinswoman.
The fact of and manner in which something is related to another.
* 1997 , Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault'', page 67, ''The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865):
Any romantic relationship.
Any passionate love for something.
(taxonomy) resemblances between biological populations; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common origin, type or stock.
(geology) structural resemblances between minerals; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common origin or type.
(chemistry) An attractive force between atoms, or groups of atoms, that contributes towards their forming bonds
(medicine) The attraction between an antibody and an antigen
(computing) tendency to keep a task running on the same processor in a symmetric multiprocessing operating system to reduce the frequency of cache misses
(geometry) An automorphism of affine space.
In the cerebrum, a short crossbar fissure that connects the two pairs of branches of a larger zygal (H-shaped) fissure.
* 1896', Andrew J. Parker, "Morphology of the Cerebral Convolutions with special reference to the order of Primates", ''Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia'', Second Series, ' 10 (3): 323
An affinity or connection in a piece of music between tones, chords, or phrases, such that one part appears to repeat, to imitate, or to derive from the other, especially when perceived as an organising principle in the music; a zygonic relationship.
* 2005 , Adam Ockelford, Repetition in music: theoretical and metatheoretical perspectives (page 121)
* 2006 , Neil Lerner, Joseph Straus, Sounding Off: Theorizing Disability in Music (page 142)
* 2012 , Adam Ockelford, Applied Musicology: Using Zygonic Theory to Inform Music Education, Therapy, and Psychology Research , page 106
As nouns the difference between affinity and zygon
is that affinity is a natural attraction or feeling of kinship to a person or thing while zygon is in the cerebrum, a short crossbar fissure that connects the two pairs of branches of a larger zygal (h-shaped) fissure.affinity
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Noun
(wikipedia affinity) (affinities)- A “signature” was placed on all things by God to indicate their affinities' — but it was hidden, hence the search for arcane knowledge. Knowing was '''guessing''' and ' interpreting , not observing or demonstrating.
Derived terms
* affinity card * affinity fraud * affinity reagent * microaffinityzygon
English
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(en-noun)- “The evidence is threefold: (1) as admitted by Ecker, the zygon always appears independently in the foetus;
- Chopin's Prelude op. 28 no. 6 comprises 403 notes which give rise—in just one sub-domain (pitch class)—to around 13,000 potential primary zygons', 500 million potential secondary '''zygons''', and 1018 potential tertiary ' zygons .
- Zygonic relationships, or zygons , are depicted using the letter Z.
- Observe that the second melodic interval is deemed to exist in imitation of the first through the repetition of magnitude but not polarity through an "inverse" secondary zygon of pitch.