What's the difference between fidelity and infidelity?

Fidelity


Definition:

  • (n.) Faithfulness; adherence to right; careful and exact observance of duty, or discharge of obligations.
  • (n.) Adherence to a person or party to which one is bound; loyalty.
  • (n.) Adherence to the marriage contract.
  • (n.) Adherence to truth; veracity; honesty.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These lysates are comparable to those of Escherichia coli in transcriptional and translational fidelity and efficiency in response to a given template DNA.
  • (2) Procaryotic DNA polymerases contain an associated 3'----5' exonuclease activity which provides a proofreading function and contributes substantially to replication fidelity.
  • (3) In the current study, left ventricular geometry, loading conditions, and contractile state were assessed in 13 patients with nonischemic DCM with the use of simultaneous high-fidelity pressure measurements and echocardiographic recordings.
  • (4) "He was modelling himself at that time in Ethiopia on Che Guevara and Fidel Castro.
  • (5) A comparison of two different restriction enzymes, which cleave the plasmid with blunt or cohesive-ended double-strand breaks, did not reveal differences in repair fidelity.
  • (6) A major limitation of 3-D CT is its inability to reconstruct the pathology of soft tissues with the same fidelity afforded bony structures.
  • (7) The effect of metal activators on the fidelity of DNA synthesis has been examined.
  • (8) The spin-spin relaxation time T2 may be estimated using multiecho pulse sequences, but the accuracy of the estimate is dependent on the fidelity of the spin-echo amplitudes, which may be severely compromised by rf pulse and static field imperfections.
  • (9) The fidelity of base-matching is better in double-stranded transcripts synthesized on rat liver chromatin by homologous polymerase than in those synthesized on it by a bacterial polymerase, or in those synthesized by either of the two polymerases on pure DNA.
  • (10) Investors include Threadneedle, Fidelity, Blackrock and Standard Life.
  • (11) Rob Fisher, head of UK personal investments at Fidelity, thinks tax considerations alone make it worthwhile using the full limit.
  • (12) If you want full flexibility, you will probably have to switch your pension savings to a provider such as Hargreaves Lansdown, Fidelity or Aegon Retiready and manage it from their “platform”.
  • (13) Replication fidelity is shown to decrease roughly exponentially, and catalytic efficiency is shown to increase with diminishing returns, with the number of letters for a fixed genome length; hence their product, i.e.
  • (14) In Escherichia coli the dnaQ+ gene, which encodes epsilon, a fidelity subunit of DNA polymerase III, and the rnh+ gene, which encodes RNase H, share a promoter region but are transcribed in opposite directions.
  • (15) Unsurprisingly, Romney is polling ahead of his rival among Cuban Americans in Miami, where exiles have traditionally supported successive Republican candidates for their hardline stance against the communist regime of Fidel Castro and his brother Raúl.
  • (16) This indicates that elimination from the nucleotide pool of the oxidized form of guanine nucleotide is important for the high fidelity of DNA synthesis.
  • (17) Members of each subgroup have similar although not identical restriction maps and show relatively high but varying fidelities of DNA cross reassociation between members.
  • (18) They could be playing these people – Morales, Chesimard – off as pawns.” While Cuba was once an attractive destination for criminals, revolutionaries and skyjackers – 34 of 62 American plane hijackers flew to Cuba in 1969 – Fidel Castro lost patience with the swarm as early as the 70s.
  • (19) The high fidelity DNA synthesis in vitro by Thermococcus litoralis DNA polymerase provides good possibilities for maintaining the genetic information of original target DNA sequences intact in the DNA amplification applications.
  • (20) In Fidel's mind, he was probably acting in self-defence."

Infidelity


Definition:

  • (n.) Want of faith or belief in some religious system; especially, a want of faith in, or disbelief of, the inspiration of the Scriptures, of the divine origin of Christianity.
  • (n.) Unfaithfulness to the marriage vow or contract; violation of the marriage covenant by adultery.
  • (n.) Breach of trust; unfaithfulness to a charge, or to moral obligation; treachery; deceit; as, the infidelity of a servant.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Infidelity of replication is a hallmark of the HIV-1 RT, and replication errors by the enzyme on RNA and DNA templates are discussed.
  • (2) Extensive research among the Afghan National Army – 68 focus groups – and US military personnel alike concluded: "One group sees the other as a bunch of violent, reckless, intrusive, arrogant, self-serving profane, infidel bullies hiding behind high technology; and the other group [the US soldiers] generally views the former as a bunch of cowardly, incompetent, obtuse, thieving, complacent, lazy, pot-smoking, treacherous, and murderous radicals.
  • (3) I got a hint of the price she has paid for her ambidextrous approach to cultural identify after her last interview was published, when a shocking number of British Pakistani men got in touch to denounce her as a shameful infidel.
  • (4) Alterations of DNA can be caused by reaction of electrophilic agents with DNA constituents, by increased infidelity of DNA replication, by integration of viral genomes or by recombination events involving integrated proviruses.
  • (5) In 56 cases (10,2%) we found a marker profile consisting of both myeloid and lymphoid characteristics (biphenotypic) leukemia = interlineage infidelity).
  • (6) "Ectopic" marker expression, however, which should not be interpreted as reflecting lineage infidelity, may in some instances explain different clinical courses in AL patients.
  • (7) After an itinerant childhood, overshadowed by abandonment and infidelity, Yates claimed to have experimented with sex and heroin at an early age.
  • (8) This finding supports the concept of lineage fidelity, and suggests that true interlineage infidelity, myeloid to lymphoid, is a rare occurrence in adult acute nonlymphocytic leukemia.
  • (9) In recent weeks Trump has been cranking up his gender attacks on Clinton, accusing her of playing the woman card and criticising her for being an “enabler” of her husband’s infidelities.
  • (10) Mysteries remain, however: the people involved in infidelities are still unnamed and the writers have not yet revealed the identity of their 'deep throat'.
  • (11) "Are you an infidel to try and take that from them?
  • (12) Naseri told The Saturday Paper Taliban fighters found his Australian driver’s licence and photos of Australia on his phone, threatening him, “You [are] from an infidel country, we kill you.
  • (13) Research revealed Mandela's infidelities, his love of smart suits, his reluctance to abandon a successful career as a lawyer for the high risks of politics.
  • (14) 1994 Publication of The Prince of Wales, for which author Jonathan Dimbleby is given full access to Prince and his papers and diaries, reveals details of his infidelity and suggestions that Diana was mentally unstable.
  • (15) The association was maintained when the data was stratified by other risk factors, including PE2 and the presence of blasts bearing immunologically-defined markers of more than one differentiation lineage (lineage infidelity).
  • (16) In the book, Trierweiler describes infidelity as “an infernal cycle”.
  • (17) This is from the 1949 Variety Programme Policy Guide for Writers and Producers: "There is an absolute ban on the following: jokes about lavatories, effeminacy in men, immorality of any kind; suggestive reference to honeymoon couples, chambermaids, prostitution; extreme care should be taken in dealing with references to or jokes about marital infidelity."
  • (18) Later he told a TV interviewer that he had shown heroic self-restraint in not mentioning Bill Clinton’s past infidelities out of respect for their daughter Chelsea.
  • (19) Whether these cases represent true "lineage infidelity" remains to be answered.
  • (20) They were there to record everything from his despair at the fickleness of his recruits, to the distress of his wife Jools at the way the media had invaded their privacy, with scurrilous rumours of infidelity.