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adjective (wikipedia, Reliability)
- 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.
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Etymology: (suffix, rely, able)
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