15th century, fromMiddle English[Term?], fromMiddle Frenchfidélité, fromLatinfidēlitās, fromfidēlis(“faithful”), fromfidēs(“faith, loyalty”) (Englishfaith), fromProto-Indo-European*bʰidʰ-,zero-grade of*bʰeydʰ-(“to command, to persuade, to trust”) (Englishbide).Doublet offealty.
- IPA(key): /fɪˈdɛl.ɪ.ti/,/faɪˈdɛl.ɪ.ti/
fidelity (countable anduncountable,pluralfidelities)
- Faithfulness to one'sduties.
thefidelity of the civil servants
- Loyalty to one'sspouse orpartner, including abstention fromcheating orextramarital affairs.
- Accuracy, or exactcorrespondence to some givenquality orfact.
- Thedegree to which asystem accuratelyreproduces an input.
2003,Proceedings of the Twenty-ninth International Conference on Very Large Databases, Berlin, Germany, 9-12 September, 2003, page58: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 thefidelity of the system.
2004,High-Fidelity Medical Imaging Displays, Aldo Badano, Michael J. Flynn, Jerzy Kanicki,→ISBN: 2008, David L. Nelson, Michael M. Cox,Absolute Ultimate Guide for Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry,→ISBN, page S-305:The isoleucyl-tRNA synthetase has a proofreading function that ensures thefidelity of the aminoacylation reaction, but the histidyl-tRNA synthetase lacks such a proofreading function.
faithfulness to one's duties
- Arabic:إِخْلَاص (ar)(ʔiḵlāṣ),وَلَاء(walāʔ)
- Bulgarian:преданост (bg) f(predanost)
- Catalan:fidelitat (ca)
- Cherokee:ᎪᎯᏳᏗ(gohiyudi)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:忠實 /忠实 (zh)(zhōngshí),忠誠 /忠诚 (zh)(zhōngchéng)
- Finnish:uskollisuus (fi),lojaalius (fi)
- French:fidélité (fr)
- Galician:fidelidade (gl) f
- German:Redlichkeit (de) f
- Hungarian:hűség (hu)
- Icelandic:tryggð (is) f
- Italian:fedeltà (it) f
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish:ڕاستگۆیی(rastgoyî)
- Latin:fidelitas f
- Malay:kesetiaan
- Maori:pirihonga,pirihonge,pirihongi,ngākaupono
- Persian:صداقت (fa)(sedāqat),درستی (fa)(dorosti),راستگویی(rāstguyi)
- Portuguese:fidelidade (pt) f,lealdade (pt) f
- Romanian:fidelitate (ro) f
- Russian:ве́рность (ru) f(vérnostʹ)
- Spanish:fidelidad (es)
- Swedish:trohet (sv),plikttrohet (sv)
- Turkish:sadakat (tr)
- Ukrainian:ві́рність f(vírnistʹ)
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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
- “fidelity”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “fidelity”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.
