Reliability

4 definitions found

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

  Reliability \Re*li`a*bil"i*ty\ (r?-l?`?-b?l"?-t?), n.
     The state or quality of being reliable; reliableness.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  reliability
       n : the trait of being dependable or reliable [syn: {dependability},
            {dependableness}, {reliableness}] [ant: {undependability},
            {undependability}, {undependability}, {undependability}]

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

  58 Moby Thesaurus words for "reliability":
     acceptability, aplomb, authenticity, authoritativeness, balance,
     balanced personality, believability, believableness, calculability,
     conceivability, constancy, cool, credibility, credit,
     dependability, equilibrium, faithworthiness, fastness, firmness,
     homeostasis, imperturbability, incorruptibility, invariability,
     invincibility, inviolability, nerve, plausibility, predictability,
     responsibility, rootedness, sang-froid, secureness, security,
     solidity, soundness, stability, stable equilibrium, stable state,
     staunchness, steadfastness, steadiness, steady nerves,
     steady state, substantiality, sureness, tenability, trustability,
     trustiness, trustworthiness, undeflectability, unerringness,
     unfalseness, uniformity, unperfidiousness, unshakable nerves,
     unshakableness, untreacherousness, validity
  
  

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

  reliability
       
           An attribute of any system that consistently produces
          the same results, preferably meeting or exceeding its
          specifications.  The term may be qualified, e.g {software
          reliability}, {reliable communication}.
       
          Reliability is one component of {RAS}.
       
          (2000-08-13)