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Affordance refers to the psychological concept of "action possibility"; the 'adaptation of the meaning of affordances has caused many people to also use the verb "afford", which the noun was derived from, in a new way that is not consistent with its dictionary definition. Rather than "to provide" or "to make available", designers and those in the field of HCI often use it as meaning "to suggest" or "to invite".' As do some some computer programmers.