Agnate vs Affine - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between agnate and affine

is that agnate is related to someone by male connections or on the paternal side of the family while affine is purifying, refining.

is a relative whose relation is traced only through male members of the family.

(en noun)

A relative whose relation is traced only through male members of the family.

A great grandfather is an agnate if he is your father’s father’s father.

Any paternal male relative.

* enate

(en adjective)

Related to someone by male connections or on the paternal side of the family.

allied; akin

* Landor

Assume more or less of a fictitious character, but congenial and agnate with the former.

(label) Having a similar semantic meaning.

* agnatic, patrilineal

* agnatic * agnation

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(wikipedia affine) (en adjective)

(mathematics) Assigning finite values to finite quantities.

(mathematics) Of a function, expressible as

f(\vec x)= A \vec x + \vec b

(which is not linear, but is similar).

(mathematics) Of or pertaining to a transformation that maps parallel lines to parallel lines and finite points to finite points.

(comparable, chemistry) Having mutual affinity, of two materials.

* affine geometry * affine space * affine span * nonaffine * self-affine

(en noun)

(genealogy) A relative by marriage.

* in-law

* co-affine

To refine.

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