fidelity

Betekenis (Engels)

  1. (countable, uncountable) Faithfulness to one's duties.
  2. (countable, uncountable) Loyalty to one's spouse or partner, including abstention from cheating or extramarital affairs.
  3. (countable, uncountable) Accuracy, or exact correspondence to some given quality or fact.
  4. (countable, uncountable) The degree to which a system accurately reproduces an input.

Frekwensie

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Uitgespreek as (IPA)
/fɪˈdɛl.ɪ.ti/
Etimologie (Engels)

15th century, from Middle English [Term?], from Middle French fidélité, from Latin fidēlitās, from fidēlis (“faithful”), from fidēs (“faith, loyalty”) (English faith), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰidʰ-, zero-grade of *bʰeydʰ- (“to command, to persuade, to trust”) (English bide). Doublet of fealty.

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