reliability

English

Etymology

From reliable +‎ -ity.

Noun

reliability (usually uncountable, plural reliabilities)

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

   Synonym: dependable

   Synonym: unreliable

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

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: belastbar (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)