Veracity vs Fidelity - What's the difference?
veracity | fidelity |
(uncountable) Truthfulness
(countable) Something that is true
(uncountable) Accuracy or precision
act of being exact and accurate.
correctness and carefulness in one's plan of action.
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:
As nouns the difference between veracity and fidelity
is that veracity is truthfulness while fidelity is faithfulness to one's duties.veracity
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* *fidelity
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- 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.