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Attachment vs Fidelity - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between attachment and fidelity

is that attachment is the act or process of (physically or figuratively) attaching while fidelity is faithfulness to one's duties.

attachment

English

Noun

  • The act or process of (physically or figuratively) attaching.
  • * 2005 , Rebecca N. Baergen, Manual of Benirschke and Kaufmann's Pathology of the Human Placenta , page 71:
    • The “implantation window” is a short, specific phase during which attachment of the blastocyst occurs.
  • A strong bonding towards or with.
    • I have such an attachment towards my fiancé!
  • A dependence, especially a strong one.
  • * 2003 , Griffith Edwards, Alcohol: The World's Favorite Drug , page 63:
    • Through every other kind of drug experience, however, ran his attachment to alcohol.
  • A device attached to a piece of equipment or a tool.
  • * 1978 , Walter H. Wager, Time of reckoning , page 194:
    • Zimchenko's phone had a tape attachment ,
  • The means by which something is physically attached.
  • * 2012 , Sinikka Elliott, Not My Kid: What Parents Believe about the Sex Lives of Their Teenagers , page 46:
    • [The umbilical cord is] the attachment connecting the fetus with the placenta.
  • (computing) A file sent along with an email.
  • (legal) Taking a person's property to satisfy a court-ordered debt.
    • attachment of earnings
  • (meteorology) The act or process by which any (downward) leader connects to any available (upward) streamer in a lightning flash.
  • * 2009 , Jakke Mäkelä, Eero Karvinen, Niko Porjo, Antti Mäkelä and Tapio Tuomi, Attachment of Natural Lightning Flashes to Trees: Preliminary Statistical Characteristics'', published in the ''Journal of Lightning Research , volume 1

    • Derived terms

    * attachment disorder ----

    fidelity

    English

    Noun

  • Faithfulness to one's duties.
    • the fidelity of the civil servants
  • Loyalty to one's spouse or partner, including abstention from extramarital affairs (except in an open marriage).
  • Accuracy, or exact correspondence to some given quality or fact.
  • 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 0819451916) * 2008 , David L. Nelson, Michael M. Cox, Absolute Ultimate Guide for Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry (ISBN 1429212411), 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.

    Derived terms

    * fidelitous * fidelity bond * high fidelity

    Related terms

    * affidavit * bide * faith

    Antonyms

    * infidelity

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