Viability

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.

Viable or viability may also refer to:

• Viability (fetal), the ability of a fetus to survive outside of the uterus without artificial support
• Viability selection, the selection of individual organisms who can survive until they are able to reproduce
• Viability of cells, the status of a cell to survive, grow, and multiply
• 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)