Usually means: Possibility of action by user.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word affordance:

General (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. affordance: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. affordance: Wordnik
  3. affordance: Wiktionary
  4. affordance: Dictionary.com
  5. Affordance: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. affordance: Merriam-Webster.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Affordance: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. affordance: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. affordance: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Affordance: Visionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Visionary, for the Study of Vision (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (affordance)

noun:  (psychology, philosophy, robotics) Anything that is provided or furnished by an environment to an organism dwelling within it.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (graphical user interface) Any interactive control or component serving as a cue to the user to take some action.

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