ROBUST

robust

Adjective

  1. Evincing strength; indicating vigorous health; strong; sinewy; muscular; vigorous; sound; as, a robust body; robust youth; robust health.
    He was a robust man of six feet four.
  2. Violent; rough; rude.
  3. Requiring strength or vigor; as, robust employment.
  4. Sensible (of intellect etc.); straightforward, not given to or confused by uncertainty or subtlety;
  5. Designed or evolved in such a way as to be resistant to total failure despite partial damage.
  6. Resistant or impervious to failure regardless of user input or unexpected conditions.
  7. Not greatly influenced by errors in assumptions about the distribution of sample errors.


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