peaker plant n.— «Our natural gas fueled electricity generating facilities are commonly referred to as “peaker” plants. Our plants are used to balance unexpected short term surges in demand, making them critical to the...
data valdez n.— «“If we don’t see headlines in a bad way, if we don’t see a ‘data valdez,’ a ‘data spill,’ then we’ll know they’re doing their jobs well,” says David Steer, spokesman for TRUSTe, which certifies the reliability of e...
nines n.— « If you take 2600 terminals, each with a reliability of three nines and you figure it out, you find that the entire system probably is on the order… » —by U.S. Congress Technical Advisory Panel on the Digital...
nines n.— «Priding itself on its “five-nines” reliability pedigree—VeriSign’s uptime performance of running dot-net and dot-net is 100 percent—the company is guaranteeing the same reliability for operator customers...
nine n. in a percentage between 99 and 100, a place on either side of the decimal point given a value of nine and counted in serial to indicate a number very near 100 percent, such as in measurements of reliability, accuracy, purity, etc. Editorial...
nines n.— «What level of reliability do you want to design into the satellite, and verify via ground testing? 99%? Or three nines? Or four?» —“Re: German conference highlights doubts about ESA’s manned space plans” by...