Meaning

• Someone or something, especially, a television station, that is associated with a larger, related organization, such as a television network; a member of a group of associated things.

  "Our local TV channel is an affiliate of NBC."

Meaning

• To adopt; to receive into a family as one's offspring

• To bring or receive into close connection; to ally.

• (said of an illegitimate child) To fix the paternity of

  "to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another"

• To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to.

• (followed by "to" or "with") To attach (to) or unite (with); to receive into a society as a member, and initiate into its mysteries, plans, etc.