reliability
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English
Etymology
Noun
reliability (usually uncountable, plural reliabilities)
- The quality of being reliable, dependable, or trustworthy.
- 2023 April 5, Philip Haigh, “Comment: Pay deal a positive result”, in RAIL, number 980, page 3:
- Above all, rail needs to be boring. By that, I mean that it must run its timetable reliably, day-in and day-out. Punctuality and reliability remain the bedrock of a successful railway.
- Synonym: dependable
- Synonym: unreliable
- (education) the ability to measure the same thing consistently (of a measurement indicating the degree to which the measure is consistent); that is, repeated measurements would give the same result (See also validity).
- (engineering) measurable time of work before failure
Translations
quality of being reliable
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quality of a measurement
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