Availability

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Availability \A*vail`a*bil"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Availabilities}.
     1. The quality of being available; availableness.
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     Note: The word is sometimes used derogatively in the sense of
           "mere availableness," or capability of success without


           regard to worthiness.
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                 He was . . . nominated for his availability.
                                                    --Lowell.
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     2. That which is available.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  availability
       n : the quality of being at hand when needed [syn: {handiness},
           {accessibility}, {availableness}] [ant: {inaccessibility},
            {inaccessibility}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  48 Moby Thesaurus words for "availability":
     access, accessibility, actual presence, applicability,
     approachability, being here, being there, come-at-ableness,
     effectiveness, efficacy, efficiency, existence, functionality,
     getatableness, gettableness, helpfulness, hereness, immanence,
     immediacy, indwellingness, inherence, obtainability,
     obtainableness, occurrence, openness, operability, penetrability,
     perviousness, physical presence, practicability, practical utility,
     practicality, presence, procurability, procurableness,
     profitability, reachableness, securableness, serviceability,
     spiritual presence, thereness, ubiety, usability, use, usefulness,
     utility, utilizability, whereness
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  availability
       
           The degree to which a system suffers degradation or
          interruption in its service to the customer as a consequence
          of failures of one or more of its parts.
       
          One of the components of {RAS}.
       
          (2000-08-13)