robustness

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Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *h₁réwdʰos
Proto-Italic *rouðos
Italicbor.
Old Latin rōbus
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tos
Latin -tus
Latin rōbustuslbor.
English robust
Proto-Germanic *-in-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
Proto-Germanic *-ōną
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-der.
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English robustness

    From robust + -ness.

    Noun

    robustness (countable and uncountable, plural robustnesses)

    1. The quality of being robust.
      • 1950 November, “Mixed-Traffic Diesel-Electric Locomotives for Ireland”, in Railway Magazine, page 780:
        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.
      • 1960 March, “Talking of Trains: The Slough derailment”, in Trains Illustrated, page 132:
        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.
      • 2018, Patrick K Piekarski et al., “Phylogenomic Evidence Overturns Current Conceptions of Social Evolution in Wasps (Vespidae)”, in Molecular Biology and Evolution‎[1], archived from the original on 27 February 2025:
        However, we also performed analyses after excluding solitary taxa to check the robustness of the reconstructions to variation in taxon sampling.

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