reliability

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Etymology

From reliable +‎ -ity.

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Noun

reliability (usually uncountable, plural reliabilities)

1. The quality of being reliable, dependable, or trustworthy.

   Synonym: dependability

   Antonym: unreliability

   • 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.

2. (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).
3. (engineering) measurable time of work before failure

Derived terms

• nonreliability

Translations

quality of being reliable

Azerbaijani: etibarlılıq, inamlılıq Belarusian: надзе́йнасць f (nadzjéjnascʹ) Bulgarian: наде́ждност f (nadéždnost) Catalan: fiabilitat (ca) f Czech: spolehlivost (cs) n Dutch: betrouwbaarheid (nl) f Finnish: luotettavuus (fi) French: fiabilité (fr) f Galician: fiabilidade (gl) f German: Zuverlässigkeit (de) f Greek: αξιοπιστία (el) f (axiopistía) Indonesian: reliabilitas (id), keterandalan (id), keandalan (id) Irish: dílseacht f Italian: affidabilità (it) f, attendibilità (it) f Latin: firmitas f, firmitudo f Malay: kebolehpercayaan, keandalan Norwegian: Bokmål: tilforlatelighet m or f, pålitelighet m or f, reliabilitet m or f (the ability to measure the same thing consistently) Ottoman Turkish: امانت (emânet) Polish: niezawodność (pl) f Portuguese: confiabilidade (pt) f Romanian: fiabilitate (ro) f Russian: надёжность (ru) f (nadjóžnostʹ) Spanish: fiabilidad f Swedish: trovärdighet (sv) Tagalog: pagkamapanghahawakan Turkish: güvenilirlik (tr) Ukrainian: наді́йність f (nadíjnistʹ)

quality of a measurement

Belarusian: дакла́днасць f (dakládnascʹ) Dutch: betrouwbaarheid (nl) f French: fiabilité (fr) German: Belastbarkeit (de) f Indonesian: reliabilitas (id) Italian: (please verify) affidabilità (it) f, (please verify) attendibilità (it) f, (in particular cases) (please verify) esattezza (it) f, (please verify) robustezza (it) f Latin: firmitas f, firmitudo f Malay: kebolehpercayaan Portuguese: fiabilidade, confiabilidade (pt) Russian: то́чность (ru) f (tóčnostʹ) Spanish: fiabilidad Ukrainian: то́чність f (tóčnistʹ), докла́дність f (dokládnistʹ)