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fidelity

noun
/fɪˈdɛl.ɪ.ti//fᵻˈdɛlədi/US

Etymology

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.

  1. derived from *bʰidʰ-✻
  2. derived from fidēlitās
  3. derived from fidélité

Definitions

  1. Faithfulness to one's moral or civic duties.

    • the fidelity of the civil servants

  2. Loyalty to one's spouse or partner, including abstention from cheating or extramarital…

    Loyalty to one's spouse or partner, including abstention from cheating or extramarital affairs.

  3. Accuracy, or exact correspondence to some given quality or fact.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. The degree to which a system accurately reproduces an input.

      • By placing them closer to the source, we can reduce the number of messages in the system and this in turn is likely to improve the fidelity of the system.

    2. Faithfulness to God and one's religion.

      • Near-synonym: faith

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Derived

biofidelity, fidelitous, fidelity bond, fidelity card, fidelity insurance, high fidelity, low fidelity, multifidelity, no fidelity, polyfidelity, wireless fidelity

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at fidelity. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at fidelity. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at fidelity

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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