Reliability

In general, reliability (systemic def. ) is the ability of a person or system to perform and maintain its functions in routine circumstances, as well as hostile or unexpected circumstances.

The IEEE defines it as ". The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers or IEEE (read eye-triple-e) is an international Non-profit, professional organization . . the ability of a system or component to perform its required functions under stated conditions for a specified period of time. "

Reliability may refer to:

Reliability (statistics), of a set of data and experiments
High reliability is informally reported in "nines"
Reliabilism in philosophy and epistemology
Data reliability, a property of some disk arrays in computer storage
Reliability engineering ensures a system will be reliable when operated in a specified manner
Reliability theory, as a theoretical concept, to explain biological aging and species longevity
Reliability (computer networking), a category used to describe protocols

In Statistics, reliability is the consistency of a set of measurements or measuring instrument often used to describe a test. In mathematics Nine is a Composite number, its proper Divisors being 1 and 3. Reliabilism a category of theories in the philosophical discipline of Epistemology, has been advanced both as a theory of Knowledge and of justified Data redundancy (sometimes incorrectly referred to as data reliability) in Computer data storage, is a property of some Disk arrays (most commonly in Reliability engineering is an Engineering field that deals with the study of Reliability: the ability of a System or component to perform its required Reliability theory developed apart from the mainstream of Probability and Statistics. In computer networking a reliable protocol is one that ensures reliability properties with respect to the delivery of Data to the intended recipient(s as opposed to an

Dictionary

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The quality of being reliable, dependable, or trustworthy.
A quality of a measurement indicating the degree to which the measure is consistent, that is, repeated measurements would give the same result (See validity).
reliance on a friend in a time of need.

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