Viability

Viability is the ability of a thing (a living organism, an artificial system, an idea, etc.) to maintain itself or recover its potentialities.

Viability or viable may refer to:

Biology, medicine or ecology

• Viability selection, the selection of individual organisms who can survive until they are able to reproduce
• Fetal viability, the ability of a fetus to survive outside of the uterus
• Genetic viability, chance of a population of plants or animals to avoid the problems of inbreeding
• Minimum viable population, a lower bound on the population of a species, such that it can survive in the wild
• Population viability analysis, a species-specific method of risk assessment frequently used in conservation biology
• Viable count, of viable cells

Business

• Viability study, a study of the profitability of a business concept which is to be converted into a business
• Minimum viable product, in product development, a strategy used for fast and quantitative market testing of a product or product feature

Other uses

• Viable Paradise, an annual one-week writing workshop held each autumn on Martha's Vineyard
• Viable prefix, in computer science, the set of prefixes of right sentential forms which can appear on the stack of a shift-reduce parser
• 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
• Viability theory, an area of mathematics that studies the evolution of dynamical systems under constraints to the system's state

See also

• Viability assay, an assay to determine the ability of cells or tissues to maintain or recover its viability
• All pages with titles containing "viable" or "viability"
• Via (disambiguation)