How To Use Affinity In A Sentence

In its scale and some of its details Smith's building has an affinity to Richardson's 1875-1876 Hayden Building in Boston.
In this crucible I have mixed together just one ounce of sugar and one and one-eighth ounces of solidified oxygen, solidified by the force of chemical affinity and bound up in a white salt called chlorate of potash. Religion and Chemistry
Dolphins have a natural affinity with humans and just being with them, playing with them and touching them, is credited with bringing about wondrous results for sick people.
It has a natural affinity with oak ageing, and yet it can be fresh and light.
In musical concretism, a material or concrete sound is one which reveals its affinity to the source of the sound.

These are examples of a growing body of research that suggests humans have an affinity towards nature.
found a natural affinity with the immigrants
Despite my obvious affinity with the man, I'm afraid I haven't been able to acheive a telepathic connection to ask him who he is.
This latter approach has the advantage that it introduces an amplification step and also avoids an initial conjugation of the fluorochrome to the primary antibody, which may lower its affinity.
He says he feels a special affinity with the south coast city where his British odyssey began. Times, Sunday Times
I am not a student or professor of glottology, contenting myself with being able to speak one or two languages without troubling my head over their origin, so I dare not judge upon the affinity more or less remote of the not too sweet Sakai idioms with others, but there seemed to me such a marked difference between the Malay and Sakai phraseologies that My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula)
This binding affinity was later exploited widely in experimental biochemistry. Richard Kuhn and the Chemical Institute: Double Bonds and Biological Mechanisms
There is a natural affinity between the pair and Freddie said he can't believe how close they have grown.
Diff'rent Strokes actor and cast member of Hulk Hogan's Celebrity Championship Wrestling Todd Bridges is releasing an autography next month titled "Killing Willis: From Diff'rent Strokes to the Mean Streets to the Life I Always Wanted" There's no word yet as to whether Bridges, who grew up a lifelong professional wrestling fan, will mention CCW or his affinity for the business in the book yet. PWInsider Latest Articles
The divergence relationship among ursine bears was not resolved with any of the molecular data sets with the exception of the affirmation of the close affinity of the brown bear and the polar bear.
The actual vegetation may not be identical owing to varying local conditions but there is sufficient affinity to make correlations reasonably certain.
These criteria include generation, sex, affinity, collaterality, bifurcation, relative age, and sex of linking relative.
But, for such an attribute, the difference could also be due to the greater psychological affinity between Is.
MAN has always had a special affinity with dogs. The Sun
in anatomical structure prehistoric man shows close affinity with modern humans
His affinity with his subject, though, is one that conversely makes him adhere to the facts.
When you mix Asia's rapidly spreading affluence with the region's cultural affinity for brand-name luxury goods, you have a mouthwatering recipe for Richemont, owner of such well-known lines as Cartier and Van Cleef & Arpels jewelry, Piaget watches, Montblanc pens and Alfred Dunhill leather goods. To make good stock decisions, consider a global perspective
She claims that out of all her dolls, she feels the strongest affinity for Gabi, the Brazilian-American soccer player, who, like her, is biracial.
This a priori orientation toward being - with its implicit pre-conceptual awareness of being by connatural affinity and desire, as we know a good by being drawn to it - is a genuine a priori presence of being to the human mind constitutive of its very nature as a dynamic faculty.
I wouldn’t say I have a special affinity for my period, just that I don’t feel a disaffinity for it. I Still Want My Period
This binding affinity to supercoiled DNA is approximately two orders-of-magnitude larger than on relaxed DNA.
It makes others feel an affinity with you. The Sun
As oxyhemoglobin circulates to deoxygenated tissue, oxygen is incrementally unloaded and the affinity of hemoglobin for oxygen is reduced.
Dresser's style was never dictated by dogmatic theories, but had a general affinity to the art of the early English Middle Ages and also suggested his admiration for Asian art.
a specific stain is one having a specific affinity for particular structural elements
Nevertheless, ANII-DIN clearly had a higher affinity to the test sequences than ANI-NVS.
There is close affinity between Italian and Spanish.
The fireplace and overmantel are furnished with objects that reaffirm the collectors' particular affinity for the arts of Pennsylvania.
This binding affinity is related to free enthalpy of the formation of the product of metal and ligand.
The British Evangelical Council, first formed in 1952 as an Evangelical response to unbiblical ecumenism, is now known as ‘Affinity’.
With his wheezing voice and affinity for using his lecture wand as a torture instrument, any midnight Sabbath sounded better.
The candidates have also attacked and counter-attacked in public with unrivaled speed, to say nothing of a loose affinity for the truth.
These vibrant color fields have an affinity with the spiritual-esthetic aura of Mark Rothko's canvases.
The understanding of molecular interactions and binding also provides the basis for many biotechnology designs and processes, such as rational design of artificial affinity ligands for biopolymers purification.
Lancashire Railways is the first Wallace train game I played and it was obvious from the start that the man has an affinity for the choo-choos.
Greek, Latin, and the newly discovered Sanskrit, Jones says, show an “affinity ... so strong that no philologer could examine all the three without believing them to have sprung from some common source which, perhaps, no longer exists ...” Dictionary of the History of Ideas
Not surprisingly, we can see an affinity to Warhol's early films in this series of paintings.
When they are related by blood their relationship is called consanguinity; when they are related by marriage it is called affinity; when they are related by being god-parents in Baptism or Confirmation, it is called spiritual affinity; when they are related by adoption, it is called legal affinity. Baltimore Catechism No. 3 (of 4)
Let no man's greatness be a bar to full utterance; but let temperance and charity -- duties peculiarly imperative when uttering derogatory truth -- be especially observed towards a resplendent suffering brother like Coleridge, suffering from his own weakness, but on that very account entitled to a tenderer consideration from those who are themselves endowed to feel and claim something more than common human affinity with a nature so large and so susceptive. Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers
In this chromate, as in many others, the affinity of the chromic acid to the base is small; the former is liable to separate from the latter, and, by deoxidation, to become converted into green oxide of chromium. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
With so many details to remember, it is understandable that many birders are intimidated by this accipitrine affinity.
basic dyes have an affinity for wool and silk
It makes others feel an affinity with you. The Sun
In summary, the cephalochordate affinity of Pikaia is at best only weakly indicated by the characters visible in fossils discovered so far. Down with phyla! (episode II) - The Panda's Thumb
Yes; but the term affinity is objectionable in this case, because, as that word is used to express a chemical attraction (which can be destroyed only by decomposition), it cannot be applicable to the slight and transient union that takes place between free caloric and the bodies through which it passes; an union which is so weak, that it constantly yields to the tendency which caloric has to an equilibrium. Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments
Now hyperdulia is apparently a mean between latria and dulia: for it is shown towards creatures having a special affinity to God, for instance to the Blessed Virgin as being the mother of God. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
The closer the affinity, the better the value of one individual predicts that of another.
Like Hoagy Carmichael, the composer of "Georgia on My Mind," Ray Charles had a natural affinity for the lie of the land: his voice could embrace the purple-mountained uplift of "America the Beautiful" and ramble slyly through back roads and shantytowns, too. The Lord’s Music and the Devil’s Words
He showed a special affinity for the understanding and performance of the music of Rachmaninoff.
But when she meets an unusual customer with an affinity for French films, his beautiful smile and amiableness melt her.
You have a natural affinity for jobs in the emergency services. The Sun
Another racecourse striving for closer affinity with its neighbourhood is Newbury. Times, Sunday Times
It does, however, take more than trippy keyboards to get indie approval, especially when most indie kids would never admit to ever having had any affinity for Van Halen or Rush.
As a result, the iron cation is released, but the apo-transferrin, which has high affinity for the receptor at acidic pH, remains bound strongly. Aaron Ciechanover - Autobiography
Women especially often feel a real affinity for dance as a form. Alternative Health Care for Women
An affinity for our built past is sewn deep into the culture, in literature and landscape. Times, Sunday Times
The development of all antagonistic substances which confer the special character on antimicrobic sera, as well as antitoxins, may be expressed as the formation of bodies with specific combining affinity for the organic substance introduced into the system -- toxin, bacterium, red corpuscle, &c., as the case may be. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
Now, thanks to the encouragement of the leadership of the Republican party, they're a well-funded and orgranized collection of fundamentalists and people in Armani suits and SUV's with a strange affinity for golf outings and firearms. July 2005
The pair clearly share an artistic affinity. Times, Sunday Times
As he acquired further land and office in the north, the affinity inevitably widened.
Their affinity with the Leicester public, too, is unsurpassed.
A science, in the proper acceptation of that term, cannot be formed technically, that is, from observation of the similarity existing between different objects, and the purely contingent use we make of our knowledge in concreto with reference to all kinds of arbitrary external aims; its constitution must be framed on architectonical principles, that is, its parts must be shown to possess an essential affinity, and be capable of being deduced from one supreme and internal aim or end, which forms the condition of the possibility of the scientific whole. The Critique of Pure Reason
However, many states only punished relationships between first cousins and closer, and others only punished relationships of consanguinity, but not affinity.
You have a natural affinity for jobs in the emergency services. The Sun
Density is thus largely a function of word stock and reflects at this stage in Coolidge's work an affinity for monosyllabic words, particularly those that couple long vowels or diphthongs with consonant blends.
Early Carboniferous coral faunas of the block have a strong Eurasian affinity, with two recognized coral faunas from two ecological facies having been recognized.
He said the UDM's ostensible affinity to traditional leadership failed to accrue any benefits to the party this time, as it did in the 1999 general election.
St. Peter's must have had strong affinity with the nearby Castle.
The nitriding process is based on the affinity of nascent nitrogen for iron and certain other. metallic elements.
Using the heat theorem discovered by you it has now become possible on the one hand to calculate from the heat evolution during chemical reactions and the specific heats, the chemical affinity and the maximum possible output of energy during chemical reactions, and on the other hand to calculate the equilibrium in reactions not yet studied. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1920 - Presentation Speech
The village's affinity with the hard, uncompromising game of shinty is hardly surprising, for this is an area where most of the men work in hard, uncompromising professions.
You get the feeling that, like the villanelle or sestina, concrete poetry is now something that poets try their hand at as a demonstration of their virtuosity rather than a poetic tactic or affinity. Something concrete « Squares of Wheat
A bibliophile from a young age she has always had an affinity for the genres of science fiction and fantasy. Kelly Melcher | Fandomania
I now have a special affinity with the beastie as I was called a piranha on 18 Doughty Street when I took part in Vox Politix on Friday. Archive 2007-02-01
New Englanders despised New Yorkers who reciprocated the sentiment, and neither felt much affinity for the patrician Virginians or the farmers of the Carolinas and Georgia.
My thinking on this curious dichotomous view of the Church (and the even more curious affinity it has with leftist dissent) can be found here.
These connections reflect ideological, not ethnic, affinity.
It is an affinity thing. Times, Sunday Times
Her other hand points at a painting within the painting of a mermaid sounding a conch shell, indicating her affinity with the legless, mythological creature.
As you say, you have no experience, but I have seen you with William and you appear to have a natural affinity with children.
But what? methinks I deserve to be pounded, for straying from poetry to oratory: but both have such an affinity in this wordish consideration, that I think this digression will make my meaning receive the fuller understanding: which is not to take upon me to teach poets how they should do, but only finding myself sick among the rest, to show some one or two spots of the common infection, grown among the most part of writers: that, acknowledging ourselves somewhat awry, we may bend to the right use both of matter and manner; whereto our language giveth us great occasion, being indeed capable of any excellent exercising of it. English literary criticism
Hence in Roman law affinity arising from a valid marriage, whether consummated or not, constituted a diriment impediment between the affined in all degrees throughout the direct line, and to the second degree (civil method of computing) in the indirect or oblique line. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
According to Messrs Frémy and Becquerel, the term ozone ought to be abandoned; for, after a series of careful experiments, they have come to the conclusion, that there is no real transformation of matter in the production of ozone, but that it is nothing more than 'electrified oxygen,' or oxygen in a particular state of chemical affinity. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 456 Volume 18, New Series, September 25, 1852
I have a great affinity and affection for my American counterparts.
It's important that you share an affinity with your husband.
They grow among grass and moss in mixed woodlands, but they seem to have a special affinity with silver birch.
All carbocations are strong alkylating agents with a high affinity for groups which donate or share their electrons, such as halide ions, hydroxyl anions and amines.
These berries are considered to be a fine accompaniment for buffalo steaks or tongue, an affinity which accounts for their common name.
Kinship terms can also be broken into components, such as the term ‘father’, and this could be associated with various ‘connotations - positive or negative… [for] each of the following relationships: generation, collaterality, sex, relative age, affinity etc’.
Enzyme kinetics investigation revealed that the affinity of gut carboxylesterase of Periplaneta americana (L. ) for dipterex was 23 times greater than that with the cholinesterase.
Durand, a man who had a powerful affinity with banks and who was a three-time ex-convict, was by definition a man of dubious reputation, a reputation confirmed by the fact that he was a close and longtime term associate of Cronkite. Seawitch
In her affinity for miniaturism and her desire to make an art about her own past or her fears, she was also on the same track, although not moving at the same speed, as a number of artists associated with Dada or Surrealism, including DalÃ¬, Max Ernst, and Yves Tanguy. Much Prettier
You see, although I do want to study in biology, I have an affinity for studying animals in all their shapes and forms, and will probably end up specializing in mammalogy.
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Epstein et al. described sulphate uptake which was resolved into a saturable high-affinity phase and a non-saturable low-affinity phase.
He was most at home when working on the land and had a natural affinity with country people.
The fundamental belief in a rational relationship between internationalism is Grotius type of human rationality, that is, the concept of social affinity.
Mustard has a special affinity for game, we think, and this recipe Tshowcases the interaction admirably.
When he died, his final will provided for a series of scholarships to Oxford open to young colonials, Germans (because of the racial affinity), and Americans (in preparation for re-entry).
The latter is due to the affinity of the egg white protein, avidin, for biotin preventing intestinal absorption of the biotin.
I have a great affinity with it. Times, Sunday Times
This dolphin later turned up in Grace Bay in 1980 and demonstrated a natural affinity with people.
Both types of polymer contain strong C-F bonds and are thermally stable, chemically inert and ‘non-stick’, because of the low affinity of fluorine for other materials.
Exactly how receptor auto-phosphorylation alters receptor affinity is not yet known, although both linkage and cooperativity require the presence of the intracellular juxtamembrane domain as deletion of this region eliminates both binding phenomena. Journal of Biological Chemistry current issue
He felt a strong affinity to the Russian girl.
Across the continent there were marked continuities in physical characteristics and cultural features, and many linkages based on relations of kinship, affinity, exchange, and religion.
Unlike his brother Clarence, he acquired no ready-made affinity which he could exploit when he came of age.
Parental love is motivated by the child's intimate affinity and likeness to her.
These inane literary works have no affinity to the masses.
The knothole is a draw even to tourists with no affinity for baseball. Watching Baseball Through 'Knothole' Isn't Naughty When Giants Play
The affinity between the mutually complemental antibody and receptor was described by a weighted affinity matrix.
It is not a physical attraction but a psychological affinity.
Her affinity for what she calls "artsiness" stands her in good stead among her current clientele. Undefined
Related to this notion of communal affinity is ‘social closure’.
Alcohol and water have an affinity for each other and form what's called an azeotropic mixture, which means the water is hesitant to let go of the alcohol, even though the alcohol wants to become steam. NPR Topics: News
Their affinity for Beach Boys-like sentiment is apparent in sappy lyrics and songs titles like My First Kiss.
Affinity groups form the basic decision-making bodies of mass actions.
If it has a greater affinity for oxygen than copper has, then the zinc must be either electropositive or electronegative to copper. Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86
Besides the long-range interactions it makes with neighboring protease residues, the binding affinity of a peptide also depends on its own conformation.
Since it is the nature of God to create, humanity's closest affinity to the Deity lies in its creativity.
This nematode haemoglobin is chemically similar to myoglobin and has the highest affinity for oxygen of any known animal haemoglobin.
Since antibody affinity is expected to stay the same even in AIDS, unlike antibody quantity which decays in advanced disease, this approach is less likely to give false recent classification.
Does the fragmentation of her body undo any sense of corporeal affinity we might feel, and so foreclose the possibility of identification?
It has a natural affinity with sweetcorn, so pile a few cobs on the table - a meal that should definitely be eaten with the hands.
Gold, platinum, palladium and other so-called "siderophile" elements have a strong affinity for iron. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
Researchers have also developed ways to make higher-affinity antibodies that are smaller, less immunogenic, and more stable. The Scientist
Their language bears no affinity to the idioms of the Continent: in the habits of domestic life, they are not easily distinguished from their neighbors of France: but the most singular circumstance of their manners is their disregard of conjugal honor and of female chastity. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Teenagers have a natural affinity with the colour black as it saves having to change clothes everyday and time spent on needlessly choosing which outfit to wear today.
Other factors, including drug potency, receptor affinity, and pharmacokinetics also influence these outcomes.
But with the exception of the peculiar muzzle of the Saiga (or European antelope), the only known proboscidian Ungulates are the elephants and tapirs, and to neither of these has the pig any close affinity. On the Genesis of Species
That Baillie does not endorse the affinity between women and nature assumed in the approaches Bowerbank studies as well as in the ecofeminism of our own time is consistent with the rejection of gender essentialism stated in her Introductory Discourse and demonstrated in her plays. Notes on 'Joanna Baillies Ecotopian Comedies'
If zinc has an affinity for oxygen, it must be because the zinc is either electropositive or electronegative to oxygen. Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86
Use of the same island at the same time and the synchronization of seasonal and annual movements were not directly linked to any social affinity between the two individuals.
Tiffany argues that an affinity-based model of culture may be understood through a dialogue between Leibniz's monadic thought and the "placeless places" of modern nightlife. About This Volume
In marine sediments and faeces, sulphate reducing bacteria outcompete methanogenic bacteria because of their higher affinity for such substrates.
The Reunified Christian Church is deeply concerned about the implications of bitek and affinity, for with a person able to call upon the immediate support of thousands of other human minds to any crisis or problem, they grow up better-adjusted and in less need of psychological reassurance. Archive 2009-08-01
This I confess, about seven years past, with some others of affinity thereto, for my private exercise and satisfaction, I had at leisurable hours composed; which being communicated unto one, it became common unto many, and was by transcription successively corrupted, untill it arrived in a most depraved copy at the press ... On The Art of Reading
One might then wonder wherein lies the affinity of new economic geographers for his work.
There is a close affinity between Italian and Spanish.
About 25 years ago, the Harvard biologist E. O. Wilson popularized the "biophilia" hypothesis: the idea that our evolutionary history has blessed us with an innate affinity for living things.
Megamerus "has an affinity to Sagra, but differs from that genus in having setiform antennae, porrect mandibles, and securiform palpi, its habit is also totally different, and more like that of some of those insects which belong to the heterogeneous magazine called Prionus; it is undoubtedly the most singular and novel form in Captain King's collection. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2
They are musical plays on the song "Henya" with the name cleverly spelled backwards to indicate their musical affinity. Ralph A. Miriello: When the Heart Emerges Glistening a Powerful New Album by Ambrose Akinmusire
a new power! we feel a vague sympathy with _that_ unknown region which spreads beyond this great net, -- _that limitless beyond_ hath a mystic affinity with a part of our own frame; we unconsciously extend our wings (for the soul to us is as the wings to the fly!); we attempt to rise, -- to soar above this perilous snare, from which we are unable to crawl. Devereux — Complete
Punters who have an affinity with one particular jockey will often put their rides in accumulator bets. Times, Sunday Times
He says he feels a special affinity with the south coast city where his British odyssey began. Times, Sunday Times
In the study, researchers found that the gold nanoparticles have 600 percent greater affinity for cancer cells than for noncancerous cells.
But I have a certain affinity for the weak odor of a pig farm. Cooper Renner, | clusterflock
They could include special events, webchat facilities and affinity offers. Times, Sunday Times
This, again, indicates the possibility of a more specific stylistic affinity between these pavements.
Besides, Bermuda has a special affinity with such things. Times, Sunday Times
As oxyhemoglobin circulates to deoxygenated tissue, oxygen is incrementally unloaded and the affinity of hemoglobin for oxygen is reduced.
No. 31634, the first record of this species in Coahuila, has pale gray interspaces on the rectrices of its tail that are definitely wider than the three black bands, indicating affinity with _bendirei_ (Friedmann, 1950: 702). Birds from Coahuila, Mexico
Let it be said, genuine Reformed interpretation has no affinity to the Barthian hermeneutic.
Stones and metals fall under the rulership of planets, not signs, but through its association with Venus, Libra has affinity with copper, sapphires, marcasite, lapis lazuli and chrysolite.
The bulk of local people were from the same Pashtun tribal stock as the Afghans of Kandahar and Jalalabad, and they felt close cultural and tribal affinity with those over the border.
He saw at once, that, sensitive as she was to every impression, this fear was a contagious one, a mere gregarian affinity, and that she needed the preponderating warmth and strength of a protecting presence, the influence of a fuller vitality. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860
A natural affinity for figures - he used to help his father's bookkeeper - got him a start in accountancy.
I have a special affinity for him. Christianity Today
I have an affinity for British pastries and sentimental connections with "Banbury" so I'm putting them on my to-do list. cheers! Banbury Cakes Revisited
Its affinity for oxygen makes it resistant to corrosion and attack by most chemicals.
She had a natural affinity with the country way of life and she relished the various tasks synonymous with the changing seasons.
Mammalian cell receptors can have high solute binding affinity, but also allow for rapid on/off binding kinetics.
A particular example is the definition of frequent, simple single-ended amino acid binding sites, whose focus on affinity for side chain atoms frees α-carbon substituents for the posited peptide forming reactions (Fig. 7). Are Stereochemical Explanations Causally Sufficient?
Trypsin was covalently linked with chemical modified granule chitosan and was used to isolate and purify aprotinin from the extract of cattle lungs by affinity chromatography.
This I confess, about seven years past, with some others of affinity thereto, for my private exercise and satisfaction, I had at leisurable hours composed; which being communicated unto one, it became common unto many, and was by transcription successively corrupted, until it arrived in a most depraved copy at the press. Religio Medici
How to explain the special affinity between gardener and dachshund? Times, Sunday Times
He had a natural affinity with the land and was always glad and happy to help his neighbours.
Great newspapers give ad breaks to groups with which they feel an ideological affinity, but turn away ads from those they do not, such as antiabortion groups. Hear, Hear
I feel an affinity with nature. Times, Sunday Times
I have a special affinity for him. Christianity Today
Furthermore, the effect of uniplanar orientation on pervaporation was discussed in relation to molecular structure of CMC and affinity of the CMC membranes to ethanol and water.
Another pavement, from Verulamium, also suggests some affinity with the Lion and Stag mosaic.
This conformational changing process is strengthened by the increase in the affinity of the enzyme and for its coenzymes during hibernation.
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations. Kahlil Gibran
His face, though unweathered and unseamed, and much too fine and thin in texture, had a curious affinity to the faces of old sailors or fishermen who have lived Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works
ABL is a member of a group of proteins, which bind the Thomsen-Friedenreich antigen selectively and with high affinity.
Due to the unique high affinity and reversible interactions with diols , boronic acid-based fluorescent sensors can be used in carbohydrate sensing and recognition.
The formation of hemoglobin carbamate results in a reduced affinity of hemoglobin for O 2 thus favoring dissociation of bound oxygen in the tissues where the concentration of CO 2 is high.
Hers are a Highlander's dreams: obviously, the tartan plaid and tam-o'-shanter evince Newberry's Scottish affinity.
There is also another post covering the technical aspects on how you can run JEE (Glassfish) on Amazon while dealing with load-balancing affinity, session high availability, self healing etc. on Sun blog here Appistry Opens the Cloud to (Almost) All Apps
These dyes have an affinity for and are able to complex (see Glossary) with basic or 'cationic' (see Glossary) substances. Chapter 8
More than 2400 equilibrium constants of acid-base reactions, 1500 complexation enthalpies, and nearly 2000 infrared and ultraviolet shifts upon complexation are gathered together in 25 thermodynamic and spectroscopic scales of basicity and/or affinity. AvaxHome
Many of those are incompletely preserved, and some are decidedly tubular in appearance, calling into question their affinity to the Hyolitha.
The permeability sequence follows the affinity sequence of the binding sites, and larger and polyatomic anions exhibit a higher permeability than other anions.
Sage: A strongly aromatic herb with a mildly resinous flavor, sage has a particular affinity for game birds.
Being transferred forward in contrary directions, they produce what is called the voltaic current: and it seems to me impossible to resist the idea that it must be preceded by a _state of tension_ in the fluid, and between the fluid and the zinc; the _first consequence_ of the affinity of the zinc for the oxygen of the water. Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1
Cziffra's affinity with Liszt is strongly evident on four of the eight discs.
The researcher suggested a close affinity to Tetraodontiformes, although this idea has not been generally accepted.
These works are all marked by notes, maintaining both affinity and wariness towards everyday city life.
Unlike the situation in nematodes and platyhelminths, substantial evidence supports a close phylogenetic affinity of acanthocephalans to the predominately free-living rotifers.
She seems to have a natural affinity for/with water.
Thanks to a cost-effective, flexible product line and sales partnerships with affinity-marketing companies, this business has quintupled its sales since 1997.
There is a close affinity between Italian and Spanish.
I had an Iron Maiden Tshirt, despite having no affinity for the Maiden at all, and, in fact, a positive disdain.
Disease and genetic defects are things of the past, and new “bitek” (short for biotechnology) even allows for “affinity” (telepathy) between those who choose to have the affinity gene spliced into their DNA. Review: The Reality Dysfunction by Peter F. Hamilton | Missions Unknown

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