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)
- faithfulness to one's duties
- accuracy, or exact correspondence to some given quality or fact
- loyalty, especially to one's spouse
- the degree to which a system accurately reproduces an input.
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faithfulness to one's duties
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accuracy, or exact correspondence to some given quality or fact
loyalty, especially to one's spouse
the degree to which an electronic system accurately reproduces a given sound or image
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[edit] External links
- fidelity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- fidelity in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
