Origin: Latin suffix -tion
Affine transformation has 2 different meanings across 1 category:
(mathematics) a transformation that is a combination of single transformations such as translation or rotation or reflection on an axis
A geometric transformation that preserves lines and parallelism, but in general not lengths or angles; (more formally) an automorphism of an affine space: a mapping of an affine space onto itself that preserves both the dimension of any affine subspace and the ratio of the lengths of any pair of parallel line segments.