Dependability

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ability to perform as and when required (note 1: includes availability, reliability, recoverability, maintainability, and maintenance support performance, and, in some cases, other characteristics such as durability, safety and security. Note 2: used as a collective term for the time-related quality characteristics of an item).

ISO/IEC TS 5723:2022(en) Trustworthiness — Vocabulary

Senses

1 more sense beyond the canonical

Wordset Dictionary

the quality of being dependable or reliable

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

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Information Class

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Variants

6 surface forms

synonym: dependablenessreliabilityreliableness
plural: Dependabilities
possessive: Dependability's
pluralpossessive: Dependabilities'

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