Fidelity vs Faithfully - What's the difference?
fidelity | faithfully |
Faithfulness to one's duties.
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:
In a faithful manner.
(US) A conventional formula for ending a letter, used when the salutation addresses the person for whom the letter is intended using an honorific.
As a noun fidelity
is faithfulness to one's duties.As an adverb faithfully is
in a faithful manner.fidelity
English
Noun
- the fidelity of the civil servants
- 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 fidelityAntonyms
* infidelityExternal links
* *faithfully
English
Adverb
(en adverb)- The CD reproduces music faithfully.
- I have been faithfully married for the past twenty years.