Affine may describe any of various topics concerned with connections or affinities.
It may refer to: * Affine, a relative by marriage in law and anthropology *

Affine cipher The affine cipher is a type of monoalphabetic substitution cipher, where each letter in an alphabet is mapped to its numeric equivalent, encrypted using a simple mathematical function, and converted back to a letter. The formula used means that eac ...

, a special case of the more general substitution cipher * Affine combination, a certain kind of constrained linear combination *

Affine connection In differential geometry, an affine connection is a geometric object on a smooth manifold which ''connects'' nearby tangent spaces, so it permits tangent vector fields to be differentiated as if they were functions on the manifold with values i ...

, a connection on the tangent bundle of a differentiable manifold * Affine Coordinate System, a coordinate system that can be viewed as a Cartesian coordinate system where the axes have been placed so that they are not necessarily orthogonal to each other. See

tensor In mathematics, a tensor is an algebraic object that describes a multilinear relationship between sets of algebraic objects related to a vector space. Tensors may map between different objects such as vectors, scalars, and even other tensor ...

. * Affine differential geometry, a geometry that studies differential invariants under the action of the special affine group * Affine gap penalty, the most widely used scoring function used for sequence alignment, especially in bioinformatics *

Affine geometry In mathematics, affine geometry is what remains of Euclidean geometry when ignoring (mathematicians often say "forgetting") the metric notions of distance and angle. As the notion of '' parallel lines'' is one of the main properties that is ...

, a geometry characterized by parallel lines * Affine group, the group of all invertible affine transformations from any affine space over a field ''K'' into itself * Affine logic, a substructural logic whose proof theory rejects the structural rule of contraction * Affine representation, a continuous group homomorphism whose values are automorphisms of an affine space *

Affine scheme In commutative algebra, the prime spectrum (or simply the spectrum) of a ring ''R'' is the set of all prime ideals of ''R'', and is usually denoted by \operatorname; in algebraic geometry it is simultaneously a topological space equipped with the ...

, the spectrum of prime ideals of a commutative ring ** Affine morphism, a

morphism of schemes In algebraic geometry, a morphism of schemes generalizes a morphism of algebraic varieties just as a scheme generalizes an algebraic variety. It is, by definition, a morphism in the category of schemes. A morphism of algebraic stacks generalizes a ...

such that the pre-image of an open affine subscheme is affine *

Affine space 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 of the concepts of distance and measure of angles, keeping only the properties related ...

, an abstract structure that generalises the affine-geometric properties of Euclidean space * Affine

, a tensor belonging to an affine coordinate system *

Affine transformation In Euclidean geometry, an affine transformation or affinity (from the Latin, ''affinis'', "connected with") is a geometric transformation that preserves lines and parallelism, but not necessarily Euclidean distances and angles. More generall ...

, a transformation that preserves the relation of parallelism between lines

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