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Concord is a related term of affinity.


As a proper noun concord

is the state capital of new hampshire.

As a noun affinity is

a natural attraction or feeling of kinship to a person or thing.

concord

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) concorde'', Latin ''concordia'', from . See heart, and compare accord

Noun

(en noun)
  • A state of agreement; harmony; union.
  • * Love quarrels oft in pleasing concord end. -
  • (obsolete) Agreement by stipulation; compact; covenant; treaty or league
  • * The concord made between Henry and Roderick. -
  • (grammar) Agreement of words with one another, in gender, number, person, or case.
  • (legal, obsolete) An agreement between the parties to a fine of land in reference to the manner in which it should pass, being an acknowledgment that the land in question belonged to the complainant. See fine.
    • (Burrill)
  • (probably influenced by chord, music) An agreeable combination of tones simultaneously heard; a consonant chord; consonance; harmony.

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A variety of American grape, with large dark blue (almost black) grapes in compact clusters.

    • Etymology 3

    From (etyl)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To agree; to act together
    • (Edward Hyde Clarendon)

    affinity

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia affinity) (affinities)
  • 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):
    • 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.
  • 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.

    • Derived terms

    * affinity card * affinity fraud * affinity reagent * microaffinity