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Reliability, reliable, or unreliable may refer to:

Science, technology, and mathematics

Computing

  • Data reliability (disambiguation), a property of some disk arrays in computer storage
  • High availability
  • Reliability (computer networking), a category used to describe protocols
  • Reliability (semiconductor), outline of semiconductor device reliability drivers

Other uses in science, technology, and mathematics

  • Reliability (statistics), the overall consistency of a measure
  • Reliability engineering, concerned with the ability of a system or component to perform its required functions under stated conditions for a specified time
    • High reliability is informally reported in "nines"
    • Human reliability in engineered systems
  • Reliability theory, as a theoretical concept, to explain biological aging and species longevity

Other uses

  • Reliabilism, in philosophy and epistemology.
  • Unreliable narrator, whose credibility has been seriously compromised.
  • Discrediting anything in a debate

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Fiabilidad para niños

  • All pages with titles containing "Reliability"
  • All pages with titles containing "Reliable"
  • All pages with titles containing "Unreliable"
  • Reliant (disambiguation)
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