The severity of the offence merits a long prison sentence.
Gravity or austerity; extreme strictness; rigor; harshness; as, the severity of a reprimand or a reproof; severity of discipline or government; severity of penalties
A degree or category of magnitude for the ultimate impact or effect of executing a given software fault, regardless of probability The severity of a defect is generally classified as "Major" or "Minor"
The severity of a particular test result is a range of values defined by boundaries, or thresholds, set by the user, administrator or Superuser NetVigil maintains three severities (OK, Warning, & Critical) divided by two thresholds Example: A ping/rtt test has Warning and Critical thresholds established at 30ms and 50ms, respectively Therefore, the severity ranges would be defined as: OK = 0ms to 29ms, Warning = 30ms to 49ms, Critical = 50ms and greater
How bad or serious a disease is In asthma, severity is generally broken up into four categories: mild intermittent, mild persistent, moderate persistent, and severe persistent (Some experts also include a category for "severe intermittent" for those unusual people who most of the time have no asthma symptoms at all but occasionally have very serious or life-threatening asthma episodes ) Just as we do not know what causes asthma, we do not understand why individuals differ so much one from another in asthma severity
According to Beccaria, punishments ought to proportional in their severity See also certainty and celerity, and Beccaria's arguments on proportionality
Describes the degree of importance you attach to each state in a request A severity is made up of three items: a name, a number, and a color The severity color is reflected in the color of the icon for the managed object as that object is displayed in the Viewer The Request Designer offers a ready-made list of severities and allows you to create your own severity