The trait of being dependable or reliable

Usage examples of reliability.

Unsure that the afflicted child had accurately named her tormentor, Putnam and Cheever devised a scheme to test her reliability.

What arrays of optical or magnetic disks might provide reliability and redundancy for more than a few years of storage?

And since the thaumaturgical laws of time symmetry had not yet been fathomed, that kind of Talent still could not be brought to the peak of reliability that others had been.

Like all Russian pistols, what the East Germans call the Pistole M is a crudely designed piece of machinery with a simple blowback system and a butt angle like a letter L, but its Soviet designers gave it a legendary reliability which in tight corners makes up for all other shortcomings.

In presenting his argument against the very existence of introspection, Lyons correctly asserts that we commonly have an unfounded certainty about the reliability of our internal observations.

First they convince us of their honesty, reliability, the accuracy of their predictions, and their well-meant intentions.

They should rank Web sites by authoritativeness, reliability, and objectivity, for instance.

I guessed in a swift uncomfortable moment of insight that what they would discuss would be not primarily the cartoonist but the reliability or otherwise of my judgment.

Either way, Killashandra's doubts of his reliability as a partner faded as he ordered the port officials about imperiously, badgering the routing agent to be certain that the man hadn't over looked a more direct flight or a more advantageous connection.

He debated taking his 37 Lagonda Rapide, an automotive jewel he had recently purchased from Coys, in Kensington, but took the keys to the BMW 750i1 instead-he needed speed and reliability for this run.

Even ignoring the engineering and design gap, every substitution you make of down-time materials downgrades the safety and reliability of the aircraft and probably its payload as well.

And of course, such a deviation would have triggered a corresponding downgrading of the reliability of the information by the logic circuits of the probe's own probability monitors.

Which began to explain why the Swordmaster had gone to the extremity of brevetting the three of them - he wasn't just, as he had admitted, unsure of the reliability of some of the baronial captains, he was sure of their unreliability, at least under the present circumstances of close confinement, and couldn't count on the ones he could trust to keep the lid firmly on the pot.

A mammalian cell had a DNA complement of several billion base pairs, each acting as a piece of information What was reproduction, after all, but a computerized biological process of enormous complexity and reliability?

Unlike Buckley's, those reports came with sources attributed and with reliability assessments.