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Definition of Reliable

1. Adjective. Worthy of reliance or trust. "A dependable worker"

2. Adjective. Worthy of being depended on. "I would be true for there are those who trust me"

3. Adjective. Conforming to fact and therefore worthy of belief. "Reliable information"

Definition of Reliable

1. a. Suitable or fit to be relied on; worthy of dependance or reliance; trustworthy.

Definition of Reliable

1. Adjective. Suitable or fit to be relied on; worthy of dependence or reliance; trustworthy ¹

2. Adjective. (signal processing of a communication protocol) Such that either a sent packet will reach its destination, even if it requires retransmission, or the sender will be told that it didn't ¹

3. Noun. Something or someone reliable ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Reliable

1. one that can be relied on [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Reliable

releveled releveling relevels relevent releves relevé relexification relexifier relexify reliabilism

reliabilist reliabilists reliabilities reliability reliability coefficient reliable (current term) reliableness reliablenesses reliables reliably

reliance reliances reliant reliantly relic relicense relicensed relicenses relicensing relicensure

Literary usage of Reliable

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1907)
"The heights we are now able to assign to the great summits will, at any rate, be consistent amongst themselves, and more reliable than previous ..."

2. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones (1866)
"except the brief dispatches in the newspapers; nor any reliable accounts of subsequent ... No reliable war news; but there are rumors that our victory at ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"According to reliable tradition the first one to compile these scattered laws •into- one code and to arrange them according to the subject matter was Judah ..."

4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"We wish to recognize as much of them as our human faculties will permit, and wish to study them by methods of investigation which proved to be reliable in ..."

5. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1876)
"Good, reliable Agents wanted in all parts of the United Sutes. Price $35. sent COD Send for Pamphlet to CHARLES BATCHELOR, MANAGER. ..."

6. The Popular Science Monthly (1894)
"Adding these totals, we obtain the area of the semitropic orchards of California, according to the latest and most reliable data. There are 64361 acres of ..."

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