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Etymology

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Fromrely +‎-able.

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Adjective

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reliable (comparativemorereliable,superlativemostreliable)

  1. Suitable orfit to berelied on; worthy ofdependence,reliance ortrust;dependable,trustworthy
    • 1855,Andrews Norton,Internal Evidences of the Genuineness of the Gospels:
      areliable witness to the truth of the miracles
    • February 18, 1800,Samuel Taylor Coleridge,Report on Mr. Pitt's Speech in Parliament of February 17, 1800, on the Continuance of the War with France (published inThe Morning Post)
      the best means, and the mostreliable pledge, of a higher object
    • 1855–1859,Washington Irving,The Life of George Washington:
      According to General Livingston's humorous account, his own village of Elizabethtown was not much morereliable, being peopled in those agitated times by unknown, unrecommended strangers, guilty-looking Tories, and very knavish Whigs.
  2. (signal processing, of acommunicationprotocol) 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

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fit to be relied on
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Noun

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reliable (pluralreliables)

  1. Something or someonereliable ordependable
    the oldreliables

Translations

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someone to be relied on
something reliable or dependable

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