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FIDELITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Accuracy with which an electronic system reproduces the sound or image of its input signal
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("fidelity" is a kind of...):
accuracy; truth (the quality of being near to the true value)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The quality of being faithful
Synonyms:
faithfulness; fidelity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("fidelity" is a kind of...):
quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)
Attribute:
faithful (steadfast in affection or allegiance)
unfaithful (not true to duty or obligation or promises)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fidelity"):
constancy (faithfulness and dependability in personal attachments (especially sexual fidelity))
dedication (complete and wholehearted fidelity)
loyalty; trueness (the quality of being loyal)
Antonym:
infidelity (the quality of being unfaithful)
Context examples:
The mismatch repair (MMR) system promotes genomic fidelity by repairing base-base mismatches, insertion-deletion loops and heterologies generated during DNA replication and recombination.
(Mismatch Repair, NCI Thesaurus)
The raising of ghosts or devils was a promise liberally accorded by my favourite authors, the fulfilment of which I most eagerly sought; and if my incantations were always unsuccessful, I attributed the failure rather to my own inexperience and mistake than to a want of skill or fidelity in my instructors.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
I described that extraordinary care always taken of their education in arts and arms, to qualify them for being counsellors both to the king and kingdom; to have a share in the legislature; to be members of the highest court of judicature, whence there can be no appeal; and to be champions always ready for the defence of their prince and country, by their valour, conduct, and fidelity.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
One of these was fidelity.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
I would trust to my fidelity and perseverance—and to Dora.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Of her other, her older, her more established friend, Isabella, of whose fidelity and worth she had enjoyed a fortnight's experience, she scarcely saw anything during the evening.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
I had some trouble in finding an attendant for her, as it was necessary to select one on whose fidelity dependence could be placed; for her ravings would inevitably betray my secret: besides, she had lucid intervals of days—sometimes weeks—which she filled up with abuse of me.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
But, instead of proposals for conquering that magnanimous nation, I rather wish they were in a capacity, or disposition, to send a sufficient number of their inhabitants for civilizing Europe, by teaching us the first principles of honour, justice, truth, temperance, public spirit, fortitude, chastity, friendship, benevolence, and fidelity.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
I can hardly believe, writing now long afterwards, but that I was actually present in these scenes; they are impressed upon me with such an astonishing air of fidelity.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Fidelity and complaisance are the principal duties of both; and those men who do not choose to dance or marry themselves, have no business with the partners or wives of their neighbours.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
