availability

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
availability
    n 1: the quality of being at hand when needed [syn: {handiness},
         {accessibility}, {availability}, {availableness}] [ant:
         {inaccessibility}, {unavailability}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Availability \A*vail`a*bil"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Availabilities}.
   1. The quality of being available; availableness.
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   Note: The word is sometimes used derogatively in the sense of
         "mere availableness," or capability of success without
         regard to worthiness.
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               He was . . . nominated for his availability.
                                                  --Lowell.
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   2. That which is available.
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from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
availability

   <system> The degree to which a system suffers degradation or
   interruption in its service to the customer as a consequence
   of failures of one or more of its parts.

   One of the components of {RAS}.

   (2000-08-13)
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
48 Moby Thesaurus words for "availability":
      access, accessibility, actual presence, applicability,
      approachability, being here, being there, come-at-ableness,
      effectiveness, efficacy, efficiency, existence, functionality,
      getatableness, gettableness, helpfulness, hereness, immanence,
      immediacy, indwellingness, inherence, obtainability,
      obtainableness, occurrence, openness, operability, penetrability,
      perviousness, physical presence, practicability, practical utility,
      practicality, presence, procurability, procurableness,
      profitability, reachableness, securableness, serviceability,
      spiritual presence, thereness, ubiety, usability, use, usefulness,
      utility, utilizability, whereness
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