Reliability vs Viability - What's the difference?
reliability | viability |
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
the property of being viable; the ability to live or to succeed
* 1904, Hugo DeVries, Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation
* 1980, Jimmy Carter, State of the Union Address
As nouns the difference between reliability and viability
is that reliability is the quality of being reliable, dependable, or trustworthy while viability is the property of being viable; the ability to live or to succeed.reliability
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(wikipedia reliability)Noun
(en-noun)viability
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(wikipedia viability)Noun
(-)- Ordinarily these altered organs are sterile, but in some instances a very small quantity of seed is produced, and when testing their viability I succeeded in raising a few plants from them.
- In making its grants the Endowment will increase its emphasis on techniques which stimulate support for the humanities from non-Federal sources, in order to reinforce our tradition of private philanthropy in this field, and to insure and expand the financial, viability of our cultural institutions and life.
