°Someone or something that is affiliated, or associated; a member of a group of associated things.
"The local channel was an affiliate of a national network."
verb
°To adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally.
°To fix the paternity of; — said of an illegitimate child; as, to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another.