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Reliability vs Relevance - What's the difference?

reliability | relevance |

As nouns the difference between reliability and relevance

is that reliability is the quality of being reliable, dependable or trustworthy while relevance is the property or state of being relevant or pertinent.

reliability

English

(wikipedia 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

    • relevance

    English

    Alternative forms

    * relevancy (much less common)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The property or state of being relevant or pertinent.

    • Synonyms

    * bearing * pertinence

    Antonyms

    * irrelevance

    Related terms

    * relevant

    External links

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