What (who) is availability - definition
TERM IN RELIABILITY ENGINEERING
Network availability; Available; Availableness; Availabilities; Mission capable rate; Avilability
availability
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availability
<system> The degree to which a system suffers degradation or
interruption in its service to the customer as a consequence
of failures of one or more of its parts.
One of the components of RAS.
(2000-08-13)
Availability
·noun That which is available.
II. Availability ·noun The quality of being available; availableness.
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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.
- The probability that an item will operate satisfactorily at a given point in time when used under stated conditions in an ideal support environment.
Normally high availability systems might be specified as 99.98%, 99.999% or 99.9996%.
Pronunciation examples for availability
1. availability?
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4. Availability changes.
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5. and availability.
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Examples of use of availability
1. "Unfortunately, this event had more limited availability.
2. If you increase availability you increase consumption.
3. The availability of treatments varies between countries.
4. Turning to agriculture the Report says the relative improvement in water availability and ample availability of agri–credit bodes well for the Rabi crop of 2006.
5. Some flights may have no availability on certain dates and popular dates (i.e. weekends, school and public holidays) will fill quickly and Virgin Atlantic cannot guarantee availability.