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robustness

robustness noun: the quality of being robust.

Noun

robustness (countable and uncountable, plural robustnesses)

  1. The quality of being robust.
    • Robustness was considered to be an essential feature because of the comparatively high starting effort and the generally rough work for which the locomotives are to be used.1950 November, “Mixed-Traffic Diesel-Electric Locomotives for Ireland”, in Railway Magazine, page 780
    • The Inspecting Officer draws attention to the remarkable way in which the train held together after the final derailment; this was due in no small measure to the robustness of the buckeye couplings fitted to the coaches.1960 March, “Talking of Trains: The Slough derailment”, in Trains Illustrated, page 132

robustness meaning in Hindi and Vietnamese

robustness in Hindi

quality of being robust
पुष्टता puṣṭatā

robustness in Vietnamese

quality of being robust
bền vững

Examples of robustness in a sentence

  • We show that our novel construction is not only unelicitable thanks to using cryptographic techniques, but also has favourable robustness properties.
  • However, we also performed analyses after excluding solitary taxa to check the robustness of the reconstructions to variation in taxon sampling.
  • Another result supporting the robustness of our ATP gametocytocidal assay is the high re-test rate obtained (approximately 70%).

All 10 example sentences with robustness

Synonyms of robustness

Forms of robustness

pluralrobustnesses

Origin of robustness

From robust + -ness.

Words formed from robustness

Questions about robustness

What does robustness mean?
Robustness means the quality of being robust.
What is robustness in Hindi?
Robustness in Hindi is पुष्टता (puṣṭatā). See Robustness meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is robustness?
Robustness is a noun.
What is the plural of robustness?
The plural of robustness is robustnesses.

Words near robustness in the dictionary

  1. robustize
  2. robustized
  3. robustizes
  4. robustizing
  5. robustly
  6. robustness
  7. robustnesses
  8. robustotoxin
  9. robustoxin
  10. robustuous
  11. Roby

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