fidelity
/faɪˈdɛl.ɪ.ti/
noun
🇬🇧 UK
/faɪˈdɛl.ɪ.ti/
🇺🇸 US
/faɪˈdɛl.ɪ.ti/
Meaning
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Meaning 1 · noun
Faithfulness to one's duties.
“the fidelity of the civil servants”
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Meaning 2 · noun
Loyalty to one's spouse or partner, including abstention from extramarital affairs.
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Meaning 3 · noun
Accuracy, or exact correspondence to some given quality or fact.
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Meaning 4 · noun
The degree to which a system accurately reproduces an input.
How this word is used
- Everyday “the fidelity of the civil servants”
- Academic “In academic writing, “fidelity” can carry a precise technical sense.”
- Business “In business contexts, “fidelity” should be used only when the meaning is unambiguous.”
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