Communication vs Affinity - What's the difference?
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The act or fact of communicating anything; transmission.
(uncountable) The concept or state of exchanging data or information between entities.
A message; the essential data transferred in an act of communication.
The body of all data transferred to one or both parties during an act of communication.
An instance of information transfer; a conversation or discourse.
* Shakespeare
A passageway or opening between two locations; connection.
* Arbuthnot
(anatomy) A connection between two tissues, organs, or cavities.
* 1855, William Stokes, The Diseases of the Heart and the Aorta
(obsolete) association; company
* Bible, 1 Corinthians xv. 33
Participation in the Lord's supper.
(rhetoric) A trope by which a speaker assumes that his hearer is a partner in his sentiments, and says "we" instead of "I" or "you".
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.
Communication is a related term of affinity.
As nouns the difference between communication and affinity
is that communication is the act or fact of communicating anything; transmission while affinity is a natural attraction or feeling of kinship to a person or thing.communication
English
Noun
(wikipedia communication) (en noun)- communication of smallpox
- communication of a secret
- Some say that communication is a necessary prerequisite for sentience; others say that it is a result thereof.
- The node had established communication with the network, but had as yet sent no data.
- Surveillance was accomplished by means of intercepting the spies' communications .
- The subpoena required that the company document their communication with the plaintiff.
- The professors' communications consisted of lively discussions via email.
- Argument and friendly communication .
- A round archway at the far end of the hallway provided communication to the main chamber.
- The Euxine Sea is conveniently situated for trade, by the communication it has both with Asia and Europe.
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- ...and here a free communication had been established between the aorta and the vena cava.
- Evil communications corrupt manners.
- (Bishop Pearson)
- (Beattie)
Derived terms
* anticommunication * communication disorder * communication engineering * communications satellite * confidential communication * excommunication * miscommunication * noncommunication * privileged communication * telecommunication ----affinity
English
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.