English Words Starting With A

• affiliation order

  nounLow (historical/legal technical)
  /əˌfɪliˈeɪʃən ˈɔːdə/A court order requiring a man to make financial payments for a child he is proven to be the father of, but who is not living with him.
• affiliation proceedings

  plural-nounRare
  /əˌfɪl.iˈeɪ.ʃən prəˈsiː.dɪŋz/A legal process to establish that a man is the father of a child, typically for the purpose of obtaining financial support.
• affiliative drive

  nounC1/C2
  /əˈfɪl.i.ə.tɪv draɪv/The innate psychological motivation or desire to form and maintain social bonds, friendships, and positive relationships with others.
• affine

  adjectivenounLow
  /əˈfaɪn/Connected by kinship, marriage, or close connection; in mathematics, a transformation that preserves parallel lines and ratios of distances.
• affine geometry

  nounC1
  /əˌfaɪn dʒiˈɒm.ɪ.tri/A branch of geometry that studies properties preserved under affine transformations, such as parallelism, collinearity, and ratios of distances along parallel lines, but not distances or angles themselves.
• affine group

  nounVery Low
  /əˈfaɪn ɡruːp/In mathematics, a group of transformations of a vector space that preserve parallel lines and ratios of distances along parallel lines.
• affinity

  adjectivenounC1
  /əˈfɪnɪti/A natural liking for, understanding of, or connection to something or someone.
• affinity card

  nounC1
  /əˈfɪnəti kɑːd/A type of credit card (or debit card) issued in partnership with a specific organisation (e.g., a charity, sports team, or university), where a small percentage of the money spent using the card is donated to that organisation by the card issuer.
• affinity fraud

  nounC1/C2
  /əˈfɪnɪti frɔːd/A type of investment scam that targets members of a specific, identifiable group, exploiting the trust and shared identity within that group.
• affinity group

  nounC1/C2
  /əˈfɪnəti ɡruːp/A group of people linked by a common interest, background, purpose, or shared characteristic.
• affirm

  verbverb-intransitiveverb-transitiveB2
  /əˈfɜːm/to state or assert positively as a fact; to declare firmly.
• affirmance

  nounC2
  /əˈfɜː.məns/A legal or formal declaration confirming that a previous decision, law, or judgment is valid.
• affirmant

  nounLow (Uncommon general usage)
  /əˈfɜː.mənt/A person who states or declares something to be true, especially under oath or in a formal statement.
• affirmation

  nounC1
  /ˌæf.əˈmeɪ.ʃən/The action or process of stating something positively or asserting it to be true.
• affirmative

  adjectiveinterjectionnounB2
  /əˈfɜː.mə.tɪv/Agreeing with or consenting to a statement or request; meaning 'yes'.
• affirmative action

  nounB2
  /əˌfɜː.mə.tɪv ˈæk.ʃən/A government or organisational policy aimed at increasing opportunities for groups historically discriminated against, particularly in employment and education.
• affirmative flag

  nounC2
  /əˈfɜː.mə.tɪv flæɡ/A specific flag, often used in maritime, military, or aeronautical contexts, that indicates consent, agreement, permission, or a positive response to a previous signal or question.
• affirmed

  adjectiveverbMedium
  /əˈfɜːmd/Stated or declared something positively and firmly.
• affix

  nounverbverb-transitiveC1
  /əˈfɪks/to attach, stick, or fasten something to something else
• affixation

  nounC1
  /ˌæf.ɪkˈseɪ.ʃən/The process of adding a bound morpheme (prefix, suffix, infix) to a word stem to create a new word or form.

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