high fidelity


nounElectronics.
  1. sound reproduction over the full range of audible frequencies with very little distortion of the original signal.

Origin of high fidelity

1
First recorded in 1930–35

Other words from high fidelity

  • high-fi·del·i·ty, adjective

Words Nearby high fidelity

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How to use high fidelity in a sentence

  • Then there have been the adaptations of his own books, Fever Pitch, high fidelity, About a Boy, all suspiciously good.

  • All the high-fidelity speakers of the starship Procyon spoke as one, in the skillfully-modulated voice of the trained announcer.

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British Dictionary definitions for high fidelity

high fidelity

noun
  1. : Often shortened to: hi-fi

    • the reproduction of sound using electronic equipment that gives faithful reproduction with little or no distortion

    • (as modifier): a high-fidelity amplifier

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