Definitions for availability
avail·abil·i·ty

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. handiness, accessibility, availability, availablenessnoun

   the quality of being at hand when needed

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1. availabilitynoun

   The quality of being available.

   What is your availability this week?

2. availabilitynoun

   That which is available.

   We have several availabilities.

3. Etymology: From ; attested since the early 1800s.

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1. Availability

   ‹See Tfd› In reliability engineering, the term availability has the following meanings:

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1. availability

   Availability refers to the state or condition of something being accessible, obtainable, or ready for use when needed. In computing, it pertains to the functionality of a system, network, or application being up and operational without interruption over a specified period of time. In human resources, it refers to when an individual is ready to work. It can also refer to the extent to which a service or resource is available to meet demand.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:2.9 / 8 votes

1. Availabilitynoun

   the quality of being available; availableness

2. Availabilitynoun

   that which is available

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1. Availability

   In reliability theory and 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. Simply put, availability is the proportion of time a system is in a functioning condition. This is often described as a mission capable rate. Mathematically, this is expressed as 1 minus unavailability. ⁕The ratio of the total time a functional unit is capable of being used during a given interval to the length of the interval. For example, a unit that is capable of being used 100 hours per week would have an availability of 100/168. However, typical availability values are specified in decimal. In high availability applications, a metric known as nines, corresponding to the number of nines following the decimal point, is used. In this system, "five nines" equals 0.99999 availability.

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1. • Convenience

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'availability' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4602

2. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'availability' in Nouns Frequency: #1895

Usage in printed sourcesFrom: 

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How to pronounce availability?

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How to say availability in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of availability in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of availability in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of availability in a Sentence

1. Andrew Zignani:

   To date, the biggest issues have been speed, limited availability, gaps in coverage, dropouts, and price.

2. Rob Harwood:

   This guidance is a further admission of the dire situation that some doctors and healthcare workers continue to find themselves in because of government failings, if it's being proposed that staff reuse equipment, this must be demonstrably driven by science and the best evidence – rather than availability.

3. Gerrit Schneemann:

   Higher data speeds and throughput are a promise, but, with limited network availability [ they ] will have limited immediate impact on the user experience, it is not yet really clear what a killer application or use case might be for smartphones on 5G.

4. Allied Pilots Association:

   However, we firmly believe the introduction of electronic recording devices into witness interviews is more likely to hinder the investigation process than it is to improve it. Not only may the recording of interviews lead to less candid responses from those witnesses who may choose to proceed under such requirements, but the existence and potential availability of interview recordings upon conclusion of an investigation will tend to lead many otherwise willing crew members to elect not to participate in interviews at all. Either outcome would not serve to advance the goal of conducting effective investigations in order to promote aviation safety.

5. Robert McNabb:

   Those areas are seeing a rapid pace of glacier melt that could be fairly worrying, we get this increase in melt and that actually increases the availability of water that comes in these rivers... but the problem is, after a period of time, that stops increasing and then decreases fairly rapidly.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=availability
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Availability
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/availability
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=availability
7. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=availability