affiliate

noun

1. 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.”

   “They used to been^([sic]) more of a Detroit channel, as they had showed a lot of American programs, aside from being the CBC affiliate.”

verb

1. (transitive)To adopt; to receive into a family as one's offspring
2. (transitive)to bring or receive into close connection; to ally.

   “Is the soul affiliated to God, or is it estranged and in rebellion?”

3. (transitive)To fix the paternity of

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

4. (transitive)To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to.

   “How do these facts tend to affiliate the faculty of hearing upon the aboriginal vegetative processes?”

5. (intransitive)To attach (to) or unite (with); to receive into a society as a member, and initiate into its mysteries, plans, etc.