Usually means: Consistently dependable in performance, accuracy.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word reliable:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. reliable: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. reliable: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. reliable: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. reliable: Collins English Dictionary
  5. reliable: Vocabulary.com
  6. Reliable, reliable: Wordnik
  7. reliable: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. reliable: Wiktionary
  9. reliable: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. reliable: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. reliable: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. reliable: Dictionary.com
  13. reliable: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. reliable: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Reliable: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Reliable: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. reliable: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. reliable: Rhymezone
  19. reliable: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. reliable: Free Dictionary
  21. reliable: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. reliable: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. reliable: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. reliable: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reliable: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. reliable: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reliable: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See reliableness as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Suitable or fit to be relied on; worthy of dependence, reliance or trust; dependable, trustworthy
adjective:  (signal processing, of a communication protocol) Such that either a sent packet will reach its destination, even if it requires retransmission, or the sender will be told that it didn't
noun:  Something or someone reliable or dependable

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