robust
Pronunciation: /ɹəʊˈbʌst/
The English word “robust” has 9 meanings listed here.
adjective
- Able to withstand adverse conditions.
- Evincing strength and health; strong; (often, especially) both large and healthy.
- Requiring strength or vigor.
- Sensible (of intellect etc.); straightforward, not given to or confused by uncertainty or subtlety.
- Rough; rude.
- Designed or evolved in such a way as to be resistant to total failure despite partial damage.
- Resistant or impervious to failure regardless of user input or unexpected conditions.
- Not greatly influenced by errors in assumptions about the distribution of sample errors.
- Of an individual or skeletal element: strongly built; muscular; not gracile.
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin rōbustus.
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