unreliable

Определение unreliable в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь: Not reliable; Not reliable; untrustworthy; In the internet protocol suite, unreliable or best effort protocols do not guarantee delivery of data Any retransmission that is needed is left to upper layers; dangerously unstable and unpredictable; "treacherous winding roads"; "an unreliable trestle"; lacking a sense of responsibility; not worthy of reliance or trust; "in the early 1950s computers were large and expensive and unreliable"; "an undependable assistant"; liable to be erroneous or misleading; "an undependable generalization"; not worthy of reliance or trust; "in the early 1950s computers were large and expensive and unreliable"; "an undependable assistant" lacking a sense of responsibility; In the TCP/IP sense of the term, a protocol which does not perform error correction (relying on "upper" layers to detect and correct errors, usually through retransmission); This term is used to mean that a protocol or service does not provide error-checking or data-recovery mechanisms; If you describe a person, machine, or method as unreliable, you mean that you cannot trust them. Diplomats can be a notoriously unreliable and misleading source of information He had an unreliable car. reliable + unreliability un·re·li·abil·ity his lateness and unreliability. unable to be trusted or depended on; not to be trusted; Not able to be trusted for accuracy or authority; {s} undependable, irresponsible
unreliable narrator: A narrating character or storyteller in a literary or other artistic work—such as a novel, play, song, or film—who provides inaccurate, misleading, conflicting, or otherwise questionable information to the reader or audience
Patrick, for all his brutal truth telling, is an unreliable narrator.
unreliability: {i} lack of trustworthiness; irresponsibility
unreliability: the trait of not being dependable or reliable
unreliability: The quality of being unreliable
unreliably: in an unfaithful undependable unreliable manner
unreliably: in an unreliable manner, untrustworthily
unreliably: In an unreliable manner