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# reliability

«reliability» in Mova's school dictionary: **how much you can trust someone or something to do what…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (reliability — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Reliability is how much you can trust someone or something to do what they should, every time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reliability/#m1)

2) (science, maths) The reliability of a test or experiment is how much the results stay the same when you repeat it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reliability/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons, doing an experiment several times and getting similar results shows reliability; scientists repeat measurements and take the average. In everyday life, the reliability of a car, a bus service or a friend is very important. In shopping, people compare the reliability of products. Phrases: "reliability of results", "improve reliability", "known for its reliability".

### examples

- We repeated the test three times to check the reliability of our results. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reliability/#x1)
- Grandad's old car is famous for its reliability. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reliability/#x2)
- The bus company has poor reliability; buses are often late. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reliability/#x3)
- Her reliability makes her a great team captain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reliability/#x4)
- (formal) The reliability of the data was questioned. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reliability/#x5)
- The new phone was tested for reliability by dropping it many times. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reliability/#x6)

### note

Uncountable. Adjective: reliable; verb: rely (on). In science, reliable results are close to each other when repeated; this is not the same as accurate (close to the true value). A watch that is always 5 minutes slow is reliable but not accurate. Opposite: unreliability.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «reliability» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reliability/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.