- Affine
Affine may refer to:
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Affine cipher , a special case of the more general substitution cipher
*Affine combination , a certain kind of constrained linear combination
*Affine connection , a connection on the tangent bundle of a differentiable manifold
*Affine geometry , a geometry not involving any notions of origin, length or angle
*Affine differential geometry , a geometry that studies differential invariants under the action of the special affine group
*Affine group , the group of all invertible affine transformations from any affine space over a field "K" into itself
*Affine representation , a continuous group homomorphism whose values are automorphisms of an affine space
*Affine scheme , the spectrum of prime ideals of a commutative ring
*Affine (Société) , A French Commercial real estate company.
*Affine space , an abstract structure that generalises the affine-geometric properties of Euclidean space
*Affine transformation , a linear transformation followed by a translation between two vector spaces, or equivalently, a transformation that preserves all affine combinationsSee also
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