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.
Reliability may refer to:
- Reliability (engineering), the ability of a system or component to perform its required functions under stated conditions for a specified period of time.
- Reliability (statistics) In statistics, reliability is the consistency of a set of measurements or measuring instrument, often used to describe a test. Reliability is inversely related to random error, of a set of data and experiments
- High reliability is informally reported in "nines 9 is the natural number following 8 and preceding 10. The ordinal adjective is ninth"
- Reliabilism Reliabilism, a category of theories in the philosophical discipline of epistemology, has been advanced both as a theory of knowledge and of justified belief . Process reliabilism has been used as an argument against philosophical skepticism, like the brain in a vat idea. Process reliabilism is a form of epistemic externalism, and is quite popular in philosophy and epistemology
- Data reliability Data redundancy, sometimes refers to in computer data storage, is a property of some disk arrays which provides fault tolerance, so that all or part of the data stored in the array can be recovered in the case of disk failure. The cost typically associated with providing this feature is a reduction of disk capacity available to the user, since the, a property of some disk arrays in computer storage
- Reliability theory Reliability theory developed apart from the mainstream of probability and statistics. It was originally a tool to help nineteenth century maritime insurance and life insurance companies compute profitable rates to charge their customers. Even today, the terms "failure rate" and "hazard rate" are often used interchangeably, as a theoretical concept, to explain biological aging and species longevity
- Reliability (computer networking) In computer networking, a reliable protocol is one that provides reliability properties with respect to the delivery of data to the intended recipient, as opposed to an unreliable protocol, which does not provide notifications to the sender as to the delivery of transmitted data, a category used to describe protocols
- Reliability (semiconductor) Design factors affecting semiconductor reliability include: voltage derating, power derating, current derating, metastability, logic timing margins , timing analysis, temperature derating, and process control, outline of semiconductor device reliability drivers
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