availability

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availability - 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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availability - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  availability
      n 1: the quality of being at hand when needed [syn: handiness,
           accessibility, availability, availableness] [ant:
           inaccessibility, unavailability]

availability - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  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)
  

availability - 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