affection

IPA(Pronunciation)

/əˈfɛk.ʃən/

Noun

countable uncountable archaic

The act of affecting or acting upon.

Japanese Meaning

対象に影響を与える行為、その結果として生じる作用や影響 / 物事に作用し、変化をもたらす行為

What is this buttons?

The affection of the new regulations on small businesses became apparent within months.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

新しい規制が中小企業に与える影響は数か月で明らかになった。

Details

Sense（1）

The act of affecting or acting upon.

Sense（2）

The state of being affected, especially: a change in, or alteration of, the emotional state of a person or other animal, caused by a subjective affect (a subjective feeling or emotion), which arises in response to a stimulus which may result from either thought or perception.

Sense（3）

An attribute; a quality or property; a condition.

A Porism is a proposition in which it is proposed to demonstrate that some one thing, or more things than one, are given, to which, as also to each of innumerable other things, not given indeed, but which have the same relation to those which are given, it is to be shewn that there belongs some common affection described in the proposition.

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