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affined

affined is the simple past and past participle of affine.

Meaning of affine

Verb

affine (third-person singular simple present affines, present participle affining, simple past and past participle affined)

  1. (transitive) To refine.
    • The next stage is remelting: the affined sugar is dissolved in hot water and the syrup formed is made alkaline by adding milk of lime.2016, Romain Jeantet, Thomas Croguennec, Pierre Schuck, Handbook of Food Science and Technology 3, page 360
  2. (transitive) To set the CPU affinity of something
    • affined the sequential regions to run only on CPU 02005, M. Annavaram, E. Grochowski, J. Shen, “Mitigating Amdahls Law through EPI Throttling”, in 32nd International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA'05), Madison, WI, USA: IEEE, →DOI, →ISBN...

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Questions about affined

What is affined the simple past and past participle of?
Affined is the simple past and past participle of affine.

Words near affined in the dictionary

  1. affine spans
  2. affine transformation
  3. affine transformations
  4. affine varieties
  5. affine variety
  6. affined
  7. affinely
  8. affinely independent
  9. affineness
  10. affines
  11. affineur

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