reproducibilityn.

1863 J. F. W. Herschel Ess. Yard, Pendulum & Metre 8 Besides these qualities of invariability, indestructibility and identical reproducibility it [sc. a universal standard] ought to possess some obvious claim to general acceptation as of common interest to all mankind.

1898 Proc. Royal Soc. 1897–8 62 151 We are able to add the results of more recent comparisons of the cells as evidence of the order of their permanence and reproducibility.

1939 Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. 61 3336/2 The agreement between two such sets of points indicates the reproducibility.

1969 Physical Rev. Lett. 23 1402/2 The accuracy obtained for the energy is better than ±0·1% and the reproducibility is about ±0·05%.

1981 Times Lit. Suppl. 13 Feb. 169/4 The illustrations to Milton..might suggest that one thing Blake liked about printmaking was the sheer fact of reproducibility, for a surprising proportion of the Milton pictures exist in two or more copies.

2000 Discovery June 36/1 This lack of reproducibility makes it difficult to do a controlled experiment in luthiery—you can never be sure of changing just one thing about a guitar and holding all the other variables constant.