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Fidelity vs Reliability - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between fidelity and reliability

is that fidelity is faithfulness to one's duties while reliability is the quality of being reliable, dependable, or trustworthy.

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

    External links

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    reliability

    English

    (wikipedia reliability)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The quality of being reliable, dependable or trustworthy.
  • The quality of a measurement indicating the degree to which the measure is consistent, that is, repeated measurements would give the same result (See validity).
  • In engineering measurable time of work before failure