Reliability Explained

Reliability, reliable, or unreliable may refer to:

Science, technology, and mathematics

Computing

• Data reliability (disambiguation), a property of some disk arrays in computer storage
• 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

See also

• • • • Reliant (disambiguation)