Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state or quality of being reliable; reliableness.
Wiktionary
- n. The quality of being reliable, dependable, or trustworthy.
- n. The quality of a measurement indicating the degree to which the measure is consistent, that is, repeated measurements would give the same result (See validity).
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The state or quality of being reliable; reliableness.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the quality of being dependable or reliable
Etymologies
- reliable + -ity (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Lenovo: riding on the Thinkpad brand, initial build feels good but long-term reliability is low.”
Laptop-Reliability Study Highlights The Most Sturdy Laptop Makers | Lifehacker Australia
“We held what we called reliability summits around the country saying, one, we and America were a superpower, but we have a third world grid that needs to be modernized, that is antiquated.”
“So, the animal studies were done in detail, and the information obtained from the animal studies was then submitted to the FDA along with what we call reliability studies from Abiomed that everybody is quite familiar by now that looked at the durability of the device.”
“(See how all car brands rank in reliability, available to online subscribers.)”
“Predicted reliability is Consumer Reports 'forecast of how well models currently on sale are likely to hold up.”
“One example of that is the Toyota Yaris, which scored the highest in reliability for Toyota, but scores too low in our testing to be recommended.”
Consumer Reports: 2010 Annual Auto Reliability Survey: Best and worst vehicles by brand
“Their specified design reliability is 98%, a value typical of that demonstrated by the best expendable vehicles.”
“Logically, therefore, launch system reliability is treated by all parties as a priority of the highest order, irrespective of the nature of the payload, manned or unmanned.”
“Note about the alleged new "supercomputers": all the fancy & supposedly safer hardware isn't worth much if the newfangled COTS based software & computer systems safety & reliability is uncertain & unproven. common sense”
“I don't have a background in reliability engineering or statistics ... so could somebody, in the most elementary of terms, explain this chart to me?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘reliability’.
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BUDG - general terms
Budgetese - not a sexy topic but a very comprehensive list of words and collocations used in EU circles. Budgeting experts please comment and expand.
heading, across-the-board ..., emergency reserve, frontload, mopping-up, performance reserve, positive margin, negative margin, public finances, structural operat..., administrative ex..., management of EU ... and 657 more...
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ITRE - energy - general terms
above-market cost, access charge, actual peak load ..., affiliate, affiliated power ..., after-market, aggregation, aggregator, Alternating Curre..., Ampere, ancillary services, annual effects and 453 more...
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CONT - general terms
additionality, audit trail, accounting standards, auditing standards, general audit obj..., a posteriori audit, a priori audit, above board, acceptable error ..., access rights, accountability, accountable entities and 1283 more...
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EN - academic vocabulary
Use these and get promoted
abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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SCIE - statistics
a priori probability, Abbe-Helmert crit..., absolute error, absolutely unbias..., accuracy, ACF, affinity, AIC, algorithm, allometry, alphabet, anomic and 4171 more...
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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Anxiety
apprehension =wor..., regularity, dread, brood, palpitation, gradual, troublesome, virtually, irrational=unreas..., phobia=irrational..., phobic=fearful= adj, affiliated=united and 54 more...
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words
my words. my mind. my gosh.
try not to enjoy it too much.git, ghoti, sauce, quail, querulous, quarrelsome, reliability, untoward, incongruities, fission, fanatic, apple and 206 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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INTERP - VOCABULARY
The vocabulary of conference interpreting. I commend this list to those who want to know more about the profession and to those who wish to organize their knowledge about the profession. To aspirin...
retour language, A-language, B-language, C-language, relay language, take sy on relay, language booth, booth meeting, mic, mike, mission, freelance interpr... and 2086 more...
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Values List
In coaching or psychology work, it is often postulated that people have a personal list of abstract, subjectively defined, emotional concepts that drive them (often called 'values') to answer the b...
honesty, stability, justice, respect, wealth, truth, compassion, creativity, resourcefulness, health, courage, adventure and 66 more...
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archivy
fonds, document, record, series, item-level, macroappraisal, diplomatics, authenticity, genuineness, reliability, successor body, digital object and 14 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for reliability.
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