- 1忠誠(尤指婚姻關係)；(音響)傳真度
Fidelity means being loyal and faithful - keeping your promises and commitments to someone. It's most often used about marriage or a relationship, where fidelity means staying faithful to your partner. Separately, in music and electronics, 'high fidelity' (often to 'hi-fi') describes sound equipment that reproduces sound very accurately and clearly.
From the word’s history
From Middle English fidelite, from Old French fidélité, from Latin fidēlitās, from fidēlis, from fidēs 'trust'.
源自拉丁文 fidēlitās「忠誠」，從 fidēs「信任」來。
組成From Latin 'fidelis' (faithful), from 'fides' (faith, trust)
同家族的字
- confidenceshares the Latin root 'fides' (trust/faith)
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
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fidelitynoun/fɪˈdɛl.ɪ.ti/
- 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 affairs.
- 3
Accuracy, or exact correspondence to some given quality or fact.
- 4
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.
- 5
archaicFaithfulness to God and one's religion.
- Near-synonym: faith
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