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How to pronounce “elective affinity”
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- Bootstrap: Scalable Computer Science
It's an elective that kids can choose.
- Definition summary
- (sociology) A process by which two cultural forms (e.g. religious, intellectual, political or economic) having certain similarities or kinships enter into a relationship of reciprocal attraction and influence, and mutual reinforcement.[1]
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How to pronounce elective affinity
Bootstrap: Scalable Computer Science

It's an elective that kids can choose.
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Meaning
- [Noun]
- (sociology) A process by which two cultural forms (e.g. religious, intellectual, political or economic) having certain similarities or kinships enter into a relationship of reciprocal attraction and influence, and mutual reinforcement.[1]
- (dated) The feeling of being attracted to or sympathetic with someone or something.
- (chemistry, obsolete) The tendency of a substance to combine with some specific substances more readily than others.
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