FIDELITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fidelity mean? 

• FIDELITY (noun)
  The noun FIDELITY has 2 senses:

1. accuracy with which an electronic system reproduces the sound or image of its input signal

2. the quality of being faithful

  Familiarity information: FIDELITY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIDELITY (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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

faithfulness; fidelity

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 

His homely figure seemed to be lightened up by his fidelity and generosity.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening on the very morning of the wedding.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Such events occur as a result of low-fidelity repair or replication reactions.

(Base Pair Miscoding, NCI Thesaurus)

These mutations are associated with decreased fidelity of DNA replication.

(Microsatellite Mutator Phenotype, NCI Thesaurus)

A function of the mismatch repair (MMR) system that promotes genomic fidelity by repairing base-base mismatches, insertion-deletion loops and heterologies generated during DNA replication.

(DNA Replication Proofreading, NCI Thesaurus)

Of course, he smiled darkly at their delusion, but passed it by with the sad superiority of one who knew that his fidelity like his love was unalterable.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Then I should have asked you to accept my pledge of fidelity and to give me yours.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

But a faithful promise—the fidelity of promising!

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

This allele, which encodes serine/threonine-protein kinase LATS2 protein, is involved in centrosome duplication and the maintenance of mitotic fidelity.

(LATS2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

The plasmid containing the d5SICS–dNaM pair was replicated with a fidelity (retention per doubling) of more than 99%, comparable to the error rate of DNA replication with some natural polymerases.

(Expanding the Genetic Alphabet, NIH)