From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Availability \A*vail'a*bil"i*ty\, noun; pl. {Availabilities}.
1. The quality of being available; availableness.
Note: The word is sometimes used derogatively in the sense of ''mere availableness,'' or capability of success without regard to worthiness.
He was . . . nominated for his availability. --Lowell.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: the quality of being at hand when needed [syn: {handiness}, {accessibility}, {availableness}] [ant: {inaccessibility}, {inaccessibility}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
availability 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)
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