affine
uh fahyn
- n (anthropology) kin by marriage
- a (mathematics) of or pertaining to the geometry of affine transformations
- s (anthropology) related by marriage
- Roughly speaking, "non-affine" space is undistorted space.
- Schrdinger has found this in an "affine" geometry, which deals with pure concepts in their essence, not with measurement in the ordinary sense.