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noun

Affiliation n.

Adoption; association or reception as a member in or of the same family or society.

(Law) The establishment or ascertaining of parentage; the assignment of a child, as a bastard, to its father; filiation.

Connection in the way of descent.

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Etymology of 'Affiliation'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... Affiliation: (also see separate Gaza Strip and West Bank entries) Note: The Arab territories occupied by Israel since the 1967 war are not included in the data below. As stated in the 1978 Camp David Accords ...

— The 1993 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... Wilson—the author of the above "ophthalmic color scale" makes the same affiliation between sanguine, or blood color, and middle C, led thereto by scientific reasons entirely unassociated with symbolism. He has omitted orange-yellow and violet-purple; this makes the scale conform more exactly with the diatonic scale of two tetra-chords; it also gives a greater range of purples, ...

— Architecture and Democracy • Claude Fayette Bragdon

... of dream-items are not so simply made out as in language. For one cannot readily make sure that the relationship or affiliation between A and C has been observed in its purity; there is an uncertainty coming from the possible interposition of a variable factor, which may have vitiated the observation, as Alfred Sidgwick points out in his "Application of Logic."[10] So let us well consider the basis of any inference of ...

— The Journal of Abnormal Psychology - Volume 10

... government. But what is the standard of fitness? The history of the suffrage in the United States throws some light upon this question. In colonial times the plea of the propertied classes was that fitness was primarily a matter of racial origin, the ownership of property, or church affiliation. According to the theory of natural rights, fitness was vaguely associated with manhood and citizenship. More recently we have come to believe that while many factors influence the capacity of the voter, ...

— Problems in American Democracy • Thames Ross Williamson

... embraces such an examination of space, time, matter, causality, etc., as seeks to answer the most general questions about them, and provide for them in the world thought of as most profoundly real. Such a study receives its philosophical character from its affiliation with ontology, as the latter would ...

— The Approach to Philosophy • Ralph Barton Perry

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