RELIABILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reliability mean? 

• RELIABILITY (noun)
  The noun RELIABILITY has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being dependable or reliable

  Familiarity information: RELIABILITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RELIABILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being dependable or reliable

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

dependability; dependableness; reliability; reliableness

Hypernyms ("reliability" is a kind of...):

responsibility; responsibleness (a form of trustworthiness; the trait of being answerable to someone for something or being responsible for one's conduct)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reliability"):

solidity; solidness (the quality of being solid and reliable financially or factually or morally)

infallibility (the quality of never making an error)

duplicability; reproducibility (the quality of being reproducible)

Antonym:

unreliability (the trait of not being dependable or reliable)

Derivation:

reliable (worthy of reliance or trust)

reliable (conforming to fact and therefore worthy of belief)

reliable (worthy of being depended on)

 Context examples 

I have three maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose absolute reliability is quite above suspicion.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Numerical value(s) indicating the reliability of the observation measurement including quantities evaluated by statistical methods and by other means.

(Observation Result Uncertainty, NCI Thesaurus)

The platform, combined with high-tech imaging, detects genes and characterizes different kinds of stem cells with greater reliability, selectivity and sensitivity than today's biosensors.

(Better biosensor technology created for stem cells, National Science Foundation)

Accurately predicting carbon emissions from natural systems is vital to the reliability of calculations used to understand the pace of climate change, and the effects of a warmer world.

(Climate change could double greenhouse gas emissions from freshwater ecosystems, University of Cambridge)

A Federal law establishing quality standards for all laboratory testing to ensure the accuracy, reliability and timeliness of patient test results regardless of where the test was performed and also to determine if laboratories are achieving those standards.

(Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act, NCI Thesaurus)