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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.

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