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fidelity

English

Etymology

15th century, from Middle English [Term?], from Middle French fidélité, from Latin fid?lit?s, from fid?lis (faithful), from fid?s (faith, loyalty) (English faith), from Proto-Indo-European *b?id?-, zero-grade of *b?eyd?- (to command, to persuade, to trust) (English bide). Doublet of fealty.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /f??d?l.?.ti/, /fa??d?l.?.ti/

Noun

fidelity (countable and uncountable, plural fidelities)

  1. Faithfulness to one's duties.
  2. Loyalty to one's spouse or partner, including abstention from extramarital affairs.
  3. Accuracy, or exact correspondence to some given quality or fact.
  4. The degree to which a system accurately reproduces an input.
    • 2003, Proceedings of the Twenty-ninth International Conference on Very Large Databases, Berlin, Germany, 9-12 September, 2003, page 58:
      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.

Quotations

  • 2004, High-Fidelity Medical Imaging Displays (Aldo Badano, Michael J. Flynn, Jerzy Kanicki, ?ISBN
  • 2008, David L. Nelson, Michael M. Cox, Absolute Ultimate Guide for Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry ?ISBN, page S-305:
    The isoleucyl-tRNA synthetase has a proofreading function that ensures the fidelity of the aminoacylation reaction, but the histidyl-tRNA synthetase lacks such a proofreading function.

Antonyms

  • infidelity

Derived terms

  • fidelitous
  • fidelity bond
  • high fidelity

Related terms

  • affidavit
  • bide
  • faith

Translations

Further reading

  • fidelity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • fidelity in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

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resolution

English

Etymology

Recorded since 1412, as Middle English resolucioun (a breaking into part), either from Anglo-Norman resolucion or directly from Latin resol?ti? (a loosening, solution), from resolv? (I loosen), itself from the intensive prefix re- + solv? (I loosen).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???z??lu??(?)n/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /???z??l(j)u?(?)n/
  • Rhymes: -u???n
  • Hyphenation: re?so?lu?tion

Noun

resolution (countable and uncountable, plural resolutions)

  1. A strong will, determination.
  2. The state of being resolute.
  3. A statement of intent, a vow
  4. The act of discerning detail.
  5. (computing, photography) The degree of fineness with which an image can be recorded or produced, often expressed as the number of pixels per unit of length (typically an inch).
  6. (computing) The number of pixels in an image being stored or displayed.
  7. (computing) The process of determining the meaning of a symbol or address; lookup.
    name resolution
  8. (mathematics) The act or process of solving; solution.
    the resolution of an equation
  9. A formal statement adopted by an assembly, or during any other formal meeting.
    The resolution was passed by a two-thirds majority.
  10. (sciences) The separation of the constituent parts (of a spectrum etc).
  11. (sciences) The degree of fineness of such a separation.
  12. (music) Progression from dissonance to consonance; a chord to which such progression is made.
  13. (literature) The moment in which the conflict ends and the outcome of the action is clear.
  14. (medicine) In a pathological process, the phase during which pathogens and damaged tissues are removed by macrophages.

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:obstinacy

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Translations

See also

  • polygon resolution
  • texture resolution

References

  • resolution on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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