Reliability vs Consistency - What's the difference?
reliability | consistency |
As nouns the difference between reliability and consistency is that reliability is the quality of being reliable, dependable or trustworthy while consistency is local coherence.
reliability Noun
(en-noun)
The quality of being reliable, dependable or trustworthy.
The quality of a measurement indicating the degree to which the measure is consistent, that is, repeated measurements would give the same result (See validity).
In engineering measurable time of work before failure
|
consistency Noun
( consistencies)
Local coherence.
Correspondence or compatibility.
Reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent.
* Addison
- That consistency of behaviour whereby he inflexibly pursues those measures which appear the most just.
-
The degree of viscosity of something.
*{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Stephen P. Lownie], [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/david-m-pelz David M. Pelz
, magazine=( American Scientist), title= Stents to Prevent Stroke
, passage=As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels.}}
-
(logic) Freedom from contradiction; the state of a system of axioms such that none of the propositions deduced from them are mutually contradictory.
(obsolete) Firmness of constitution or character; substantiality; durability; persistency.
* South
- His friendship is of a noble make and a lasting consistency .
Antonyms
* inconsistency
Related terms
* consist
* consistence
* consistent
|
|