reliability
- noun
- /rɪˌlaɪəˈbɪlɪti/
- The engineers conducted several tests to ensure the reliability of the new software before its launch.
- reliability and validity
- internal reliability
- reliability and consistency
Texas is big enough that the reliability implications aren't that great.
- Texas is big enough that the reliability implications aren't that great.
- They are of dubious reliability to say the least.
- And one of the things it enables is, is reliability is dependability.
- The benefit of the MDX is it offers a good, nice package with great reliability, but it's dull.
- Now, one of the reasons police departments have been looking at Tesla's is that they they have such high reliability and little maintenance.
- This is advice I've gotten but also something that we see constantly at work is talent is secondary to reliability.
- So the reasons for the death of the larger fans which are starting to come back now we're primarily revolving around things like reliability.
Examples
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More research is necessary to establish further reliability of the instrument.
Academic text (2011) -
Other organizations should be encouraged to use the tool to improve reliability and validity.
Academic text (2011) -
It's a case of reliability as well as cost.
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We expect them to have 100% reliability.
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All, all the long term projects we have depend on the security and the reliability of law and order.
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In a job like this, one hundred percent reliability was the only acceptable performance.
Fiction book (1996) -
Lonitis lists six factors that can influence the reliability of published research studies.
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Reforms to the legislation are needed in order to improve the reliability of measuring school effectiveness.
Academic text (2011) -
Assessment workers, family service workers, and special investigators expressed concern about the reliability of interviews with children with disabilities.
Academic text (2011) -
Now, one of the reasons police departments have been looking at Tesla's is that they they have such high reliability and little maintenance.
Synonyms
The state of being loyal and true to someone, like a friend or pet
A quality that shows someone or something is reliable and honest
The state of being calm and not changing under pressure
Being trustworthy and able to be relied on to do what is needed
Stability and reliability, for example in money matters or a person's actions
The quality of being able to be trusted
Being someone or something you can trust to do what is needed
How much you can rely on someone or something
Antonyms
How Reliable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Reliability comes from the verb rely ('to trust') plus the ending -able ('able to be'). So reliability is the quality of being 'able to be trusted' and doing the same good job again and again.