Saturday, April 18, 2009

Epitome

[e-pi-de-me]

n.
1. A representative or example of a class or type: "He is seen . . . as the epitome of the hawkish, right-of-center intellectual" Paul Kennedy.
2. A brief summary, as of a book or article; an abstract.

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Fidelity

[fur-dell-le-ty]
noun

1. Faithfulness to obligations, duties, or observances.
2. Exact correspondence with fact or with a given quality, condition, or event; accuracy.
3. The degree to which an electronic system accurately reproduces the sound or image of its input signal.