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Webster 1913 Edition
Fidelity
Fi-del′i-ty
,Noun.
Faithfulness; adherence to right; careful and exact observance of duty, or discharge of obligations.
Especially: (a)
Adherence to a person or party to which one is bound; loyalty.
Whose courageous
fidelity
was proof to all danger. Macaulay.
(b)
Adherence to the marriage contract.
(c)
Adherence to truth; veracity; honesty.
Syn. – Faithfulness; honesty; integrity; faith; loyalty; fealty.
Webster 1828 Edition
Fidelity
FIDEL'ITY
,Noun.
1.
Faithfulness; careful and exact observance of duty, or performance of obligations. We expect fidelity in a public minister, in an agent or trustee, in a domestic servant, in a friend.The best security for the fidelity of men, is to make interest coincide with duty.
2.
Firm adherence to a person or party with which one is united, or to which one is bound; loyalty; as the fidelity of subjects to their king or government; the fidelity of a tenant or liege to his lord.3.
Observance of the marriage covenant; as the fidelity of a husband or wife.4.
Honesty; veracity; adherence to truth; as the fidelity of a witness.Definition 2025
fidelity
fidelity
English
Noun
fidelity (countable and uncountable, plural fidelities)
- Faithfulness to one's duties.
- the fidelity of the civil servants
- Loyalty to one's spouse or partner, including abstention from extramarital affairs (except in an open marriage).
- Accuracy, or exact correspondence to some given quality or fact.
- The degree to which a system accurately reproduces an input.
- 2003, Proceedings of the Twenty-ninth International Conference on Very Large Databases, Berlin, Germany, 9-12 September, 2003, page 58:
- 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.
- 2003, Proceedings of the Twenty-ninth International Conference on Very Large Databases, Berlin, Germany, 9-12 September, 2003, page 58:
Quotations
- 2004, High-Fidelity Medical Imaging Displays (Aldo Badano, Michael J. Flynn, Jerzy Kanicki, ISBN 0819451916)
- 2008, David L. Nelson, Michael M. Cox, Absolute Ultimate Guide for Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry (ISBN 1429212411), page S-305:
- The isoleucyl-tRNA synthetase has a proofreading function that ensures the fidelity of the aminoacylation reaction, but the histidyl-tRNA synthetase lacks such a proofreading function.
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faithfulness to one's duties
accuracy, or exact correspondence to some given quality or fact
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loyalty, especially to one's spouse
the degree to which an electronic system accurately reproduces a given sound or image
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