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robustify

robustify verb: to make robust, especially (software, statistics) to make more tolerant of unexpected events.

Verb

robustify (third-person singular simple present robustifies, present participle robustifying, simple past and past participle robustified)

  1. To make robust, especially (software, statistics) to make more tolerant of unexpected events.
    • The UI looks nice, but you'll need to robustify it before it goes into production.
    • To robustify the Mincer and Zarnowitz (1969) test against instabilities, Rossi and Sekhposyan (2016) propose a fluctuation test constructed over rolling windows[.]2024, Barbara Rossi, “Recent developments in forecast evaluation”, in Michael P. Clements, Ana Beatriz Galvão, editors, Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Macroeconomic Forecasting...
    Synonyms:
    robusticize, robustize

Synonyms of robustify

Forms of robustify

third-person singular presentrobustifies
present participlerobustifying
past participlerobustified
pastrobustified

Origin of robustify

From robust + -ify.

Words formed from robustify

Questions about robustify

What does robustify mean?
Robustify means to make robust, especially (software, statistics) to make more tolerant of unexpected events.
What part of speech is robustify?
Robustify is a verb.
What is the past tense of robustify?
The past tense of robustify is robustified.

Words near robustify in the dictionary

  1. robusticities
  2. robusticity
  3. robustification
  4. robustified
  5. robustifies
  6. robustify
  7. robustifying
  8. robustious
  9. robustiously
  10. robustiousness
  11. robustity

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