What is "reliably"

Usage examples of "reliably".

Screw micrometers available at the time were not considered to resolve differences below 50 microns reliably.

It was true that the further you got from the big leagues, the less reliably stats predicted big league performance.

By now the time-levels of the geological strata have been reliably mapped, and we can see that the period of trilobite dominance lasted an immensely long time -- so long that we are not really able to comprehend it.

So difficult and so strange were these works, that for nearly a generation the more difficult ones of them were a sealed book to amateur pianists, and even virtuosi like Moscheles declare that they could never get their fingers reliably through them.

Dwellers had better construct an arteria web which they controlled - and which preferably nobody else knew about - if they wanted to voyage from gas-giant to gas-giant reliably and without fuss.

Then there was also the fact that the waters of the Orinoco had never been reliably mapped, not even by the Spaniards, even though the best engineers from the School of Navigation and Cartography in Seville had been tramping through the Guianan forests for decades.

A cluster of about 10,000 cells called the sinoatrial node, its function is to generate the electrical rhythm that commands the rest of the heart to beat, and it must do so reliably, minute after minute, for three billion beats in a lifetime.

When as a child Jilly had fallen into a pout or had flung herself high into a fit of pique, her mother reliably recommended to her the shining standard of a choirgirl, and when Jilly had been a teenager excited by the smooth moves of any acne-stippled Casanova, her mother had suggested somberly that she live up to the moral model of the oft-cited and essentially mythical choirgirl.

Though driven by crass commercial considerations, most publishers and record companies do apply certain quality standards routinely and thus are positioned to provide these rating services reliably.

There are reliably reported cases that are unexotic, and exotic cases that are unreliable.

When cultivation began, it was a simple matter for the first farmers to take the seeds of wild cereals growing on hillsides and dependent on unpredictable rains, and to plant those seeds in the damp valley bottoms, where they would grow reliably and be less dependent on rain.

McCaulkin, at least, could reliably be counted on to get good value for what he spent from the purse, taking only the traditional five-percent kickback, and with a new load of good black oak just in, McCaulkin would soon be far more busy supervising the work in the drydocks than he would in counting his graft.

The government couldn't pay employees or collect taxes, they couldn't enforce laws or control the banking system, they couldn't even get their phones and faxes to run reliably.

What it craved was little crunchy brown bits, the food group of the gods, and Sybil reliably always left the pan too long on the dragon.

She performed her function reliably, with little need for chiding or shouting, and was popular with her co-workers, and that was all he knew about her, really, and all that he figured he needed to know.