Usually means: Tool to parallel transport vectors.
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  1. Affine connection: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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noun:  In differential geometry, an affine connection is a geometric object on a smooth manifold which connects nearby tangent spaces, so it permits tangent vector fields to be differentiated as if they were functions on the manifold with values in a fixed vector space.


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