robustify

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verb

To make robust, especially (software, statistics) to make more tolerant of unexpected events.

“The UI looks nice, but you'll need to robustify it before it goes into production.”

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robusticizerobustize
Scrabble 17

Meanings

verbrobustify (third-person singular simple present robustifies, present participle robustifying, simple past and past participle robustified)

present singular third person robustifies · participle present robustifying · participle past robustified · past robustified

  1. To make robust, especially (software, statistics) to make more tolerant of unexpected events.

    The UI looks nice, but you'll need to robustify it before it goes into production.

    1 more example

    To robustify the Mincer and Zarnowitz (1969) test against instabilities, Rossi and Sekhposyan (2016) propose a fluctuation test constructed over rolling windows[.]

    2024, Barbara Rossi, “Recent developments in forecast evaluation”, in Michael P. Clements, Ana Beatriz Galvão, editors, Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Macroeconomic Forecasting, Edward Elgar, page 294 of 274-304

    Synonyms: robusticize, robustize

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo make robust, especially (software, statistics) to make more tolerant of unexpected events.

Similar
robusticizerobustize
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Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁rewdʰ-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₁rowdʰós
  3. Proto-Italic*rouðosder.?
  4. Latinrōbus
  5. Latinrōbustu
  6. Englishrobust
  7. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
  8. Proto-Italic*θakos
  9. Englishrobustify

From robust + -ify.

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Chicago

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