robustness
/ (rəʊˈbʌstnɪs) /
the quality of being robust
computing the ability of a computer system to cope with errors during execution
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How to use robustness in a sentence
The researchers found that strong selection was able to promote the accumulation of foldability-improving mutations, and that some of these mutations increased the mutational robustness of the proteins, providing protection against harmful mutations.
The biological ideas of robustness, evolvability, and complexity resemble the tactical ideas of “Gote,” “Aji,” and “Seki” from Go by virtue of their common ground in combinatorial rule systems.
Under the it-from-qubit hypothesis, the properties of space-time — its robustness, its symmetries — essentially come from the way 0s and 1s are braided together.
Turns out, the ballot’s confusing design is less a weakness of America’s participatory democracy than a sign of its robustness.
Why it’s so hard to fix America’s poorly-designed election ballot | Anne Quito | October 20, 2020 | QuartzIt was nice to see a theoretically led work that understands and promotes the idea that it is robustness of the system that seems to be the evolutionary driving force.
Why Are Plants Green? To Reduce the Noise in Photosynthesis. | Rodrigo Pérez Ortega | July 30, 2020 | Quanta Magazine
Mere physical robustness is of far less account in carrying one through an extended course of study than prudence and good sense.
The Education of American Girls | Anna Callender BrackettThe fever might have gone the worse with her because of her over-fed robustness; at any rate it went badly enough.
Questionable Shapes | William Dean HowellsLooking back at him, what strikes one most was his singularly boyish cheerfulness and robustness of temperament.
The Letters of William James, Vol. 1 | William JamesCraven, fresh from his successes at golf, looked full of the open-air spirit and the robustness of the galloping twenties.
December Love | Robert HichensThere was a certain pleasant, natural robustness of spirit, and something of a feudal free-and-easiness.
Sea and Sardinia | D. H. Lawrence
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