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Fidelity vs Royalty - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between fidelity and royalty

is that fidelity is faithfulness to one's duties while royalty is the rank, status, power or authority of a monarch.

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

    * *

    royalty

    English

    Noun

    (royalties)
  • The rank, status, power or authority of a monarch.
  • People of royal rank, plus their families, treated as a group.
  • A royal right or prerogative, such as the exploitation of a natural resource; the granting of such a right; payment received for such a right
  • The payment received by an owner of real property for exploitation of mineral rights on his property.
  • (by extension) payment made to a writer, composer, inventor etc for the sale or use of intellectual property, invention etc.
  • (poker, slang) A king and a queen as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em

    • References

    * Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523 ----