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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Viability

Viability \Vi`a*bil"i*ty\, n. The quality or state of being viable. Specifically:

  1. (Law) The capacity of living after birth.
    --Bouvier.

  2. The capacity of living, or being distributed, over wide geographical limits; as, the viability of a species.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
viability

1823, from French viabilité, from viable (see viable).

Wiktionary
viability

n. the property of being viable; the ability to live or to succeed

WordNet
viability
  1. n. (of living things) capable of normal growth and development

  2. capable of become practical and useful

Wikipedia
Viability

Viability is the ability of a thing (a living organism, an artificial system, an idea, etc.) to maintain itself or recover its potentialities.

Viability or viable may refer to:

Usage examples of "viability".

Because clutter is a big factor in determining the viability of an advertising medium, it pays to look at the where your advertisement is placed.

This is significant because it points to W economic viability of outdoor advertising for community-based busi-, nesses.

The year after that, a surprisingly responsible bipartisan commission chaired by a younger, wiser Alan Greenspan recommended a body of major reforms that preserved the basic structure of the program and ensured its long-term viability.

Hydrocephalus, tabes mesenterica, and other similar maladies, are natural agencies which cut off the children of races that are sinking below the decent minimum which nature has established as the condition of viability, before they reach the age of reproduction.

The only restrictions are that warfare must not imperil the viability of planetary systems and that for Confederation members there must be freedom of life choices for the individual citizen.

We're both needed chiefly by the new colonies that are just past the threshold of viability, and hence under FSP protection.

Those that did not die bootstrapping the ships now died of disease, and there were no completely trained techs to replace them - partly because much of the oldstyle Vulcan psi-training required "circles" or groups of adepts to bring a psi-talented person to viability.

With the recent glowing report by Hasimir Fenring, as well as similar communications from Master Researcher Ajidica and Sardaukar commander Cando Garon, he was utterly confident in the viability of his synthetic spice.

He was sure he would find problems in cell division, nuclear and chromosomal behavior, metabolism, reproductive development and viability.

He was sure he would find problems in cell division, nuclear and chromosomal behaviour, metabolism, reproductive development and viability.

However, we then run up against the problem that Hevea seeds have a very short period of viability.