Translation of liability (English-English)

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asset-liability: an account through which adjustments are made to ensure that all receipts and payments are brought into account as income or expenditure of the period to which they properly relate
Category: Commerce - movement of goods

liability: 1)The legal responsibility or obligation for damages, accident, faulty construction or other negligence; Compensation and modalities differ according to each country`s legislation; 2)An undesirable thing, a handicap, e.g. inappropriate medicaments arriving at the site of a disaster
Category: Management in the public and private sector

liability: the condition of being bound in law and justice to do something which may be enforced in the courts
Category: Insurance

pliability: amorphous areas..in the fiber structure..were believed to account for --, absorbency, and similar property.
Category: Various industries and crafts

reliability: a) the ability of a semiconductor device to preserve its quality; b) the probability that the device will satisfactorily perform a required circuit function under specified conditions for a specified time
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

reliability: the ability of a functional unit to perform a required function under stated conditions for a stated period of time
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

reliability: used technically,in a statistical sense,of consistency of a test with itself,i.e.the extent to which we can assume that it will yield the same result if repeated a second time
Category: Medicine

reliability: the probability that a system or service will perform in a satisfactory manner for a given period of time when used under specified operating conditions
Category: News-systems and communications

reliability: electric system reliability has two components adequacy and security.Adequacy is the ability of the electric system to supply the aggregate electrical demand and energy requirements of the customers at all times,taking into account scheduled and unscheduled outages of system facilities.Security is the ability of the electric system to withstand sudden disturbances such as electric short circuits or unanticipated loss of system facilities
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

reliability: this term is used in three different contexts.In connection with biological assay,Finney(1947)has defined reliability of an assay as the reciprocal of a function of the confidence interval of the estimate of potency of the stimulus.The term is also used in factor analysis,especially in connection with the statistical analysis of psychological and educational tests.The`reliability`of a result is conceived of as that part which is due to permanent systematic effects,and therefore persists from sample to sample,as distinct from error effects which vary from one sample to another.The term is now also used in the context of the life of industrial components and equipments as the probability of survival after time tn,that is to say,1-F(t)where F(t)is the distribution function of the lifetimes
Category: Statistics

reliability: the ability of an item to perform a required function under stated conditions for a stated period of time
Category: Standards, measures and testing

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