Reliability vs. Availability

Reliabilitynoun

The quality of being reliable, dependable, or trustworthy.

Availabilitynoun

The quality of being available.

‘What is your availability this week?’;

Reliabilitynoun

(education) the ability to measure the same thing consistently (of a measurement indicating the degree to which the measure is consistent); that is, repeated measurements would give the same result (See also validity).

Availabilitynoun

(countable) That which is available.

‘We have several availabilities.’;

Reliabilitynoun

(engineering) - measurable time of work before failure

Availabilitynoun

The quality of being available; availableness.

‘He was . . . nominated for his availability.’;

Reliabilitynoun

The state or quality of being reliable; reliableness.

Availabilitynoun

That which is available.

Reliabilitynoun

the trait of being dependable or reliable

Availabilitynoun

the quality of being at hand when needed

Availabilitynoun

the quality of being able to be used or obtained

‘turkey producers had been losing sales because of the all-year-round availability of beef’; ‘the availability of social housing varies widely in rural areas’;

Availabilitynoun

the state of being otherwise unoccupied; freedom to do something

‘they enquired as to my availability for a game the following evening’;

Availabilitynoun

the state of not being currently involved in a sexual or romantic relationship

‘if you call yourself 'Miss' you're advertising your availability to any man who takes a fancy’;

Availability

In reliability engineering, the term availability has the following meanings: The degree to which a system, subsystem or equipment is in a specified operable and committable state at the start of a mission, when the mission is called for at an unknown, i.e. a random, time.