Fidelity

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Faithfulness to obligations, duties, or observances.
  • noun. The condition or behavior of engaging in sex only with one's spouse or only with one's partner in a sexual relationship.
  • noun. Exact correspondence with fact or with a given quality, condition, or event; accuracy.
  • noun. The degree to which an electronic system accurately reproduces the sound or image of its input signal.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Good faith; careful and exact observance of duty or performance of obligations: as, conjugal or official fidelity.
  • noun. Faithful devotion or submission; unswerving adherence; close or exact conformity; fealty; allegiance: as, fidelity to a husband or wife, or to a trust; fidelity to one's principles or to instructions; the dog is the type of fidelity.
  • noun. Faithful adherence to truth or reality; strict conformity to fact; truthfulness; exactness; accuracy: as, the fidelity of a witness, of a narrative, or of a picture.
  • noun. An order of Portugal, founded by John VI. in 1823 for the supporters of the monarchy during the insurrectionary movements in that country. Synonyms Faith, integrity, trustiness, trustworthiness, conscientiousness; Constancy, Faithfulness, etc. (see firmness).
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Adherence to a person or party to which one is bound; loyalty.
  • noun. Adherence to the marriage contract.
  • noun. Adherence to truth; veracity; honesty.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Faithfulness to one's duties.
  • noun. Loyalty to one's spouse or partner, including abstention from extramarital affairs (except in an open marriage).
  • noun. Accuracy, or exact correspondence to some given quality or fact.
  • noun. The degree to which a system accurately reproduces an input.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. accuracy with which an electronic system reproduces the sound or image of its input signal
  • noun. the quality of being faithful
  • Word Usage
    "Loyalty is indeed something more than fidelity to one's country and Government, based upon a sense of interest or of obligation: it is _fidelity based upon love_."
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