Indemnity vs Fidelity - What's the difference?
indemnity | fidelity |
(legal) An obligation or duty upon an individual to incur the losses of another.
Repayment.
(legal) The right of an injured party to shift the loss onto the party responsible for the loss.
A principle of insurance which provides that when a loss occurs, the insured should be restored to the approximate financial condition occupied before the loss occurred, no better, no worse.
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 indemnity and fidelity
is that indemnity is (legal) an obligation or duty upon an individual to incur the losses of another while fidelity is faithfulness to one's duties.indemnity
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* (l) * (l)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.