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Definition of Fiducial

1. Adjective. Relating to or of the nature of a legal trust (i.e. the holding of something in trust for another). "Fiducial power"

2. Adjective. Used as a fixed standard of reference for comparison or measurement. "A fiducial point"

3. Adjective. Based on trust.

Definition of Fiducial

1. a. Having faith or trust; confident; undoubting; firm.

Definition of Fiducial

1. Adjective. Accepted as a fixed basis of reference. ¹

2. Adjective. Based on having trust. ¹

3. Noun. In manufacturing, a small mark on a circuit board used to align components, a fiducial point. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fiducial

1. based on faith or trust [adj]

Medical Definition of Fiducial

1. 1. Having faith or trust; confident; undoubting; firm. "Fiducial reliance on the promises of God." 2. Having the nature of a trust; fiduciary; as, fiducial power. Fiducial edge, the straight edge of the alidade or ruler along which a straight line is to be drawn. Fiducial line or point, a line or point of reference, as for setting a graduated circle or scale used for measurments. Origin: L. Fiducia trust, confidence; akin to fides faith. See Faith. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fiducial

fidgetingly fidgetings fidgets fidgety fidging fidia fidibus fidibuses fidicinal fiding

fidlam ben fidlam bens fido fidos fids fiducial (current term) fiducially fiducials fiduciaries fiduciary

fiduciary duty fiduciary relation fie fiedlerite fief fiefdom fiefdoms fiefs field field-effect transistor

Literary usage of Fiducial

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... brought at each observation to the fiducial mark in the limb in connexion with the bulb. Balfour Stewart's' has a screw adjustment. ..."

2. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule (1891)
"Uneasy, restless, impatient fiducial, a. ... trustful, firm, steadfast, unwavering, fiducial. 3. Held in trust, in the nature of a trust. Fief, n. ..."

3. Modern Meteorology: An Outline of the Growth and Present Condition of Some by Frank Waldo (1893)
"Determination of the fiducial points, a. The boiling point. The thermometer must be hung inside of a double casing, with the bulb suspended at ..."

4. The doctrine of holy Scripture respecting the Atonement by Thomas Jackson Crawford (1871)
"fiducial NATURE OF FAITH. THE nature of Christian faith is a question not so much of psychological analysis as of Biblical interpretation. ..."

5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1901)
"From the measured inclination, together with the known linear distance oi the two fiducial points, is computed the difference of level of the two surfaces ..."

6. Sermons and Other Practical Works: Consisting of Above One Hundred and Fifty by Ralph Erskine (1795)
"This act of receiving Chrift then is a fiducial act ... Again, this fiducial and evidential ... They differ, in their object; the object of fiducial ..."

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