reliabilities
- 1Plural of reliability.
The report listed the reliabilities of all five power plants side by side.
Small differences in component reliabilities can compound across a large system.
Note
A plural that appears chiefly where reliability becomes something you can measure. The general quality of being dependable is usually uncountable. The statistical and engineering uses produce figures, and figures can be compared: the reliabilities of five plants, or the test-retest, internal-consistency and inter-rater reliabilities estimated for one psychological test. In that measuring sense it is regularly paired with validity, a separate property of a test.
reliabilities is a form of reliability
reliability, noun: The quality of being dependable, trustworthy, and consistent in performance or behavior. Full entry
- Forms
- reliabilityreliabilities plural
- Spelling
- reliability → reliabilities: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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