fidelity

nounattested in dialogue

United States//fᵻˈdɛlədi//
//fɪˈdɛl.ɪ.ti//
//faɪˈdɛl.ɪ.ti//

Faithfulness to one's moral or civic duties.

noun

1
Faithfulness to one's moral or civic duties.
the fidelity of the civil servants
2
Loyalty to one's spouse or partner, including abstention from cheating or extramarital affairs.
3
Accuracy, or exact correspondence to some given quality or fact.
4
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
archaicFaithfulness to God and one's religion.
Near-synonym: faith

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.

Forms

plural: fidelities

fictional · Invented, as opposed to real.fiddle · A violin, a small unfretted stringed instrument with four…Fidel · A male given name from Spanish.

fidelity · Faithfulness to one's moral or civic duties.

field · A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; an area of…Field · A surname.fielding · The act of one who fields.

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