availability
Definition 1
General: Characteristic of a resource that is committable, operable, or usable upon demand to perform its designated or required function. It is the aggregate of the resource's accessibility, reliability, maintainability, serviceability, and securability.
Definition 2
Computing: Percentage of time a computer system is available for use. Formula: Uptime x 100 ÷ (Uptime + Downtime).
Definition 3
Quality control: Ability of an item to perform its designated function, whenever required.
availability is in the Computer Hardware, Software, & Security, Entrepreneurship, Management, & Leadership and Quality Control & Management subjects.
availability appears in the definitions of the following terms:
computer aided process planning (CAPP),
last room availability (LRA),
welfare,
time management,
information security,
contingent surplus note (CSN),
universal mobile telecommunications system (UMTS),
entropy,
transparency,
maintenance capability
and
availability appears in the other terms: price and availability (P&A) study, asset availability, inherent availability, reliability, availability, maintainability (RAM), price and availability (P&A) data, availability under documentary credit
This content can be found on the following page:
http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/availability.html
email to a friend
print this definition
cite this definition
link to this page