Viability

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Viable or viability is the ability of a thing (a living organism, an artificial system, an idea, etc.) to maintain itself or recover its potentialities. "Viability is the ability to germinate the seed and provide it to all environmental conditions." Viable or viability may also refer to:

• Fetal viability, the ability of a fetus to survive outside of the uterus
• Viability selection, the selection of individual organisms who can survive until they are able to reproduce
• Viability of cells, the potential of a spore or cell to survive, grow, and reproduce
• Viability study, a study of the profitability of a business concept which is to be converted into a business
• Viable Paradise, an annual one-week writing workshop held each autumn on Martha's Vineyard
• Viable system model, a scientific model of the organization of a viable or autonomous system
• Viable system phenomena, the science of observing the behavior of a system
• Viable prefix, in computer science, the set of prefixes of right sentential forms which can appear on the stack of a shift-reduce parser
• Genetic viability, having a realistic chance of avoiding the problems of inbreeding
• Minimum viable population, in biology, ecology, and conservation biology, a lower bound on the population of a species, such that it can survive in the wild
• Minimum viable product, in product development, a strategy used for fast and quantitative market testing of a product or product feature
• Population viability analysis, a species-specific method of risk assessment frequently used in conservation biology

See also

• All pages beginning with "viable"
• All pages beginning with "viabil"
• All pages with titles containing "viable*"
• All pages with titles containing "viabil*"
• Via (disambiguation)

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