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chapter two
The distracting jungle
of reliability concepts
Every eld of knowledge, including science and technology, starts with
dening its relevant terminology. With exact denitions, specialists can con-
verse about their ideas, contributing to the development of their elds. For
example, the ideas in the eld of physics cannot be communicated properly if
the speakers do not understand and differentiate between terms such as force,
energy, and power. Technical terminology should be dened not only clearly,
but also in terms of real phenomena, so laymen can easily approach the eld.
In this regard, the terminology of reliability techno ...