robust

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.

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robust (rəʊˈbʌst, ˈrəʊbʌst)

—*adj*
1.	strong in constitution; hardy; vigorous
2.	sturdily built: a robust shelter
3.	requiring or suited to physical strength: a robust sport
4.	(esp of wines) having a rich full-bodied flavour
5.	rough or boisterous
6.	(of thought, intellect, etc) straightforward and imbued with common sense

[C16: from Latin rōbustus, from rōbur an oak, strength]

ro'bustly

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

robust

1549, from L. robustus "strong and hardy," originally "oaken," from robur, robus "hard timber, strength," also "a special kind of oak," named for its reddish heartwood, from L. ruber "red" (cf. robigo "rust"). Robustious (1548) was a common form in 17c. (cf. "Hamlet" iii.2); it fell from use by mid-18c.,

but was somewhat revived by mid-19c. antiquarian writers.

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Slang Dictionary

robust

adj. Said of a system that has demonstrated an ability to recover gracefully from the whole range of exceptional inputs and situations in a given environment. One step below bulletproof. Carries the additional connotation of elegance in addition to just careful attention to detail. Compare smart, oppose brittle.

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Computing Dictionary

robust definition

Said of a system that has demonstrated an ability to recover gracefully from the whole range of exceptional inputs and situations in a given environment. One step below bulletproof. Carries the additional connotation of elegance in addition to just careful attention to detail. Compare smart, opposite: brittle.
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Example sentences

But there is another pedagogically and academically robust concept of

education, that of a seamless system.

We owe our robust health in this country largely as a result, directly or

indirectly, to the use of fossil fuels.

And if economics as a broad discipline deserves a robust defence, so does the

free-market paradigm.

It isn't going to instantaneously scale up to a robust multiprocessing data

path and achieve high instructions per clock.

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Matching Quote

"The British are a self-distrustful, diffident people, agreeing with alacrity that they are neither successful nor clever, and only modestly claiming that they have a keener sense of humour, more robust common sense, and greater staying power as a nation than all the rest of the world put together."

-unknown author