English
Pronunciation
AHD|rÄ-līʹÉ-bÉl, IPA|/rɪËlaɪÉbÉl/, SAMPA|/rI"laI@b@l/
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Etymology
suffix|rely|able
Adjective
wikipedia|Reliability
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- suitable|Suitable or fit to be rely on|relied on; worthy of dependance or reliance; trustworthy.
#*Quotations
#:A reliable witness to the truth of the miracles. --A. Norton.
#:The best means, and most reliable pledge, of a higher object. --Coleridge.
#:According to General Livingston's humorous account, his own village of Elizabethtown was not much more reliable, being peopled in those agitated times by unknown, unrecommended strangers, guilty-looking Tories, and very knavish Whigs. --W. Irving.
- Of a communication protocol, in which a sent packet will reach its destination, even if it requires retransmission, or the sender will be told that it didn't.
Translations
trans-top|to be relied on
Czech: spolehlivý m
Finnish: luotettava
French: fiable
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German: verlässlich, zuverlässig
Hungarian: megbÃzható, szavahihetÅ
Portuguese: fiável
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ttbc|Dutch: betrouwbaar
ttbc|French: fiable, sûr
ttbc|Frisian: betroud, fertroud
ttbc|Spanish: fiable
ttbc|Swedish: pålitlig
ttbc|Indonesian: Reliabel
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