fidelity

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[edit] Etymology

15th century, from French fidélité from Latin fidēlitās, from fidēlis (faithful), from fidēs (faith, loyalty) (English faith), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰidʰ-, zero-grade of Proto-Indo-European *bʰeydʰ- (to command, to persuade, to trust) (English bide).

[edit] Noun

fidelity (plural fidelities)

  1. faithfulness to one's duties
  2. accuracy, or exact correspondence to some given quality or fact
  3. loyalty, especially to one's spouse
  4. the degree to which a system accurately reproduces an input.

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