fidelity
15th century, from, 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). Pronunciation
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15th century, from
- IPA: /fɪˈdɛl.ɪ.ti/, /faɪˈdɛl.ɪ.ti/
fidelity
- Faithfulness to one's duties.
- the fidelity of the civil servants
- Loyalty to one's spouse or partner, including abstention from extramarital affairs.
- 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:
- French: fidélité
- German: Redlichkeit
- Italian: fedeltà
- Portuguese: fidelidade, lealdade
- Russian: ве́рность
- Spanish: fidelidad
- German: Genauigkeit
- Portuguese: fidelidade
- Russian: то́чность
- Spanish: fidelidad
- German: Treue
- Portuguese: fidelidade, lealdade
- Russian: лоя́льность
- Spanish: fidelidad
- Portuguese: fidelidade
- Russian: ка́чество
- Spanish: fidelidad
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