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Stability vs Reliability - What's the difference?

stability | reliability |

As nouns the difference between stability and reliability

is that stability is the condition of being stable or in equilibrium, and thus resistant to change while reliability is the quality of being reliable, dependable, or trustworthy.

stability

English

Noun

  • The condition of being stable or in equilibrium, and thus resistant to change
  • The tendency to recover from perturbations

    • 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