Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index In engineering, survivability is the quantified ability of a system, subsystem, equipment, process, or procedure to continue to function during and after a natural or man-made disturbance; e.g. nuclear electromagnetic pulse from the detonation of a nuclear weapon. For a given application, survivability must be qualified by specifying the range of conditions over which the entity will survive, the minimum acceptable level or post-disturbance functionality, and the maximum acceptable outage duration. See also: availability Source: from Federal Standard 1037C in support of MIL-STD-188 This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.