fidelity

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Scrabble points
15
Words With Friends
15
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/fɪˈdɛl.ɪ.ti/
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/fɪˈdɛl.ɪ.ti/ · /faɪˈdɛl.ɪ.ti/ · /fᵻˈdɛlədi/(US)

Definition of fidelity

5 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)Faithfulness to one's moral or civic duties.
    “the fidelity of the civil servants”
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noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)Faithfulness to one's moral or civic duties.
    “the fidelity of the civil servants”
  2. (countable, uncountable)Loyalty to one's spouse or partner, including abstention from cheating or extramarital affairs.
  3. (countable, uncountable)Accuracy, or exact correspondence to some given quality or fact.
  4. (countable, uncountable)The degree to which a system accurately reproduces an input.
    “By placing them closer to the source, we can reduce the number of messages in the system and this in turn is likely to improve the fidelity of the system.”
  5. (archaic, countable, uncountable)Faithfulness to God and one's religion.
    “Near-synonym: faith”

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Etymology

15th century, from Middle English [Term?], from Middle French fidélité, from Latin fidēlitās, from fidēlis (“faithful”), from fidēs (“faith, loyalty”) (English faith), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰidʰ-, zero-grade of *bʰeydʰ- (“to command, to persuade, to trust”) (English bide). Doublet of fealty.

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