repeatabilityn.
/rᵻˌpiːtəˈbɪlᵻti/, U.S. /rəˌpidəˈbɪlᵻdi/, /riˌpidəˈbɪlᵻdi/ Capacity for being repeated; (Science) the extent to which consistent results are obtained when an experiment is repeated. Cf. reproducibility n.
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the world > action or operation > repeating > [noun] > ability to be repeated
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1920 Music & Lett. Oct. 289 Repeatability is thus in music an element of the beautiful.
1951 G. Humphrey Thinking iv. 108 The criterion of repeatability [of experiments] is not fulfilled.
1961 A. Flew Hume's Philos. of Belief 209 The ultimate warrant for accepting these new scientific ideas lies in their implicit open general challenge to falsification and in their implicit open general promise of repeatability.
1976 G. C. Spivak in J. Derrida Of Grammatology p. lxxxvi Denying the uniqueness of words, their substantiality, their transferability, their repeatability, Of Grammatology denies the possibility of translation.
2003 3D World Christmas 16/1 The repeatability of comedy is also well documented in TV and home video.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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