reliability

reliability

n. the trustworthiness or consistency of a measure, that is, the degree to which a test or other measurement instrument is free of random error, yielding the same results across multiple applications to the same sample. See alternate-forms reliability; internal consistency; reliability coefficient; retest reliability.

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