VIABILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does viability mean? 

• VIABILITY (noun)
  The noun VIABILITY has 2 senses:

1. (of living things) capable of normal growth and development

2. capable of being done in a practical and useful way

  Familiarity information: VIABILITY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VIABILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of living things) capable of normal growth and development

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

property (a basic or essential attribute shared by all members of a class)

Domain category:

animate thing; living thing (a living (or once living) entity)

Derivation:

viable (capable of life or normal growth and development)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Capable of being done in a practical and useful way

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

practicality (concerned with actual use rather than theoretical possibilities)

Derivation:

viable (capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are)

 Context examples 

This gene plays a role in both transcriptional regulation and cellular viability.

(DNAJB4 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

• If the viability of the two coronaviruses is similar, why is SARS-CoV-2 resulting in more cases?

(New coronavirus stable for hours on surface, National Institutes of Health)

They can be used for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment or research of disease states, for industrial purposes, or for the promotion or maintenance of organism viability or health.

(Drug, Food, Chemical or Biomedical Material, NCI Thesaurus)

Complex cellular phenomena occurring apart from cell division that support cell viability and differentiated cell function.

(Cell Growth Process, NCI Thesaurus)

Chromosomal translocation is involved in repairing broken DNA and in maintaining cell viability at the expense of long term genomic stability.

(Chromosomal Translocation Process, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein is involved in the modulation of cell viability.

(Induced Myeloid Leukemia Cell Differentiation Protein Mcl-1, NCI Thesaurus)

The ability of antibacterial clays to buffer pH also appears key to their healing potential and viability as alternatives to conventional antibiotics.

(New answer to MRSA, other 'superbug' infections: clay minerals?, NSF)

It also plays a role in ATP hydrolysis and the maintenance of cell viability.

(ORC4L Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

It is also involved in ATP hydrolysis and the maintenance of cell viability.

(ORC1L Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

All 6 genes encoding ORC (ORC1 through ORC6) may be required for initiation of DNA replication and are essential for viability.

(ORC Subunit Gene, NCI Thesaurus)