English Dictionary

affordance

noun

Anything that is provided or furnished by an environment to an organism dwelling within it, whether good or bad.

The affordance of the new smartphone is its waterproof feature.

意味（1）

Anything that is provided or furnished by an environment to an organism dwelling within it, whether good or bad.

意味（2）

(human-machine interaction) A potential transaction or operation that is made possible by a given object or environment; especially, one that is made easily discoverable.

意味（3）

(graphical user interface, by extension) Any interactive control or component serving as a cue to the user to take some action.

The grab handles on the edges of this image are affordances that the user can exploit to change the size of the image.