robust

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Adjective 1.2.1 Usage notes 1.2.2 Derived terms 1.2.3 See also 1.2.4 Translations 2 German 2.1 Adjective 2.1.1 Derived terms

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[edit] Etymology

From Latin rōbustus, from rōbur, rōbus, "strength", "hard timber", "oak".

[edit] Adjective

robust (comparative robuster, superlative robustest)

1. Evincing strength; indicating vigorous health; strong; sinewy; muscular; vigorous; sound; as, a robust body; robust youth; robust health.

   He was a robust man of six feet four.

   • Anthony Trollope (1815-1882)

     She was stronger, larger, more robust physically than he had hitherto conceived.

2. Violent; rough; rude.
3. Requiring strength or vigor; as, robust employment.
4. Sensible (of intellect etc.); straightforward, not given to or confused by uncertainty or subtlety;
5. (systems engineering) Designed or evolved in such a way as to be resistant to total failure despite partial damage.
6. (software engineering) Resistant or impervious to failure regardless of user input or unexpected conditions.
7. (statistics) Not greatly influenced by errors in assumptions about the distribution of sample errors.

[edit] Usage notes

• "More" and "most robust" are much more common than the forms ending in "-er" or "-est".

[edit] Derived terms

• robustness

[edit] See also

• Robust statistics on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Robust statistics

[edit] Translations

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[edit] German

[edit] Adjective

robust

1. robust

[edit] Derived terms

• Robustheit