reliable means

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reliable
adjective
uk
/rɪˈlaɪ.ə.bəl/us
/rɪˈlaɪ.ə.bəl/
Someone or something that is reliable can be trusted or believed because he, she, or it works or behaves well in the way ...
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mean
noun[S]
uk
/miːn/us
/miːn/
mathematicsspecialized
the result you get by adding two or more amounts together and dividing the total by the number ...
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Horses were the onlyreliablemeanof communications and a necessity.
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Indeed, when it comes to water, illicit self-provision is apparently seen as a more reliable means than the use of official public channels !
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Creating an equivalent circuit is areliablemeanto understand the electronics of a complex device as it defines the device in terms of fundamental circuit elements.
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A limitation of both studies is that they are based solely on introspection, and self-reports are not always a reliable means of evaluation.
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Normative ethics looks at systematical approaches to answer moral questions, aiming to provide a reliable means to distinguish good actions from bad actions.
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The prime minister's monopoly over the distribution of preferment is a far more reliable means of ensuring members' loyalty.
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Therefore, rapid, reliable means of communication and transport are required to ensure viability of the distributed vaccine.
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They show that although it has an important social value, it is not a reliable means of language transmission.
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Reliance on shape affords infants with an easily accessible and reliable means for extending novel words.
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The authors found the timer to be a practical, objective and reliable means of measuring mobility which can be used to complement other subjective measures such as self-report and observation.
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Furthermore, the findings demonstrate the usefulness of the paradigm adopted in this study as a more objective and reliable means of examining an otherwise evasive phenomenon.
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Langer12 suggests that odour is a very reliable means of detecting land mines as illustrated by the most effective mine detecting system - the sniffer dog.
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Likewise, we ought to believe what is supported by our best available evidence only because that is in general our most reliable means of believing what is true.
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Broad stakeholder consultation is a reliable means of finding out.
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The flight was considered proof that flying boats had evolved to become reliable means of long distance transport.
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When his linguistic fireworks fail at the end of the story, the proverb and human rhetoric in general are questioned as reliable means of communication.
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The challenge was to devise a reliable means to transport goods and people.
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It is not operated by a trained professional or under conditions that would provide a reliable means of lie detection.
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The peoples only reliable means of communication with those outside their region was through radio.
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