robustness

plural robustnesses

1. countableuncountableThe quality of being robust.

   However, we also performed analyses after excluding solitary taxa to check the robustness of the reconstructions to variation in taxon sampling.

   2018, Patrick K Piekarski et al., “Phylogenomic Evidence Overturns Current Conceptions of Social Evolution in Wasps (Vespidae)”, in Molecular Biology and Evolution, archived from the original on 27 Feb 2025

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   Robustness was considered to be an essential feature because of the comparatively high starting effort and the generally rough work for which the locomotives are to be used.

   1950 November, “Mixed-Traffic Diesel-Electric Locomotives for Ireland”, in Railway Magazine, page 780

   The Inspecting Officer draws attention to the remarkable way in which the train held together after the final derailment; this was due in no small measure to the robustness of the buckeye couplings fitted to the coaches.

   1960 March, “Talking of Trains: The Slough derailment”, in Trains Illustrated, page 132

   Synonyms: robusticity, robustity