Meaning

• Evincing strength and health; strong.

  "A robust wall was put up."

• Violent; rough; rude.

• Requiring strength or vigor

  "robust employment"

• Sensible (of intellect etc.); straightforward, not given to or confused by uncertainty or subtlety

• Designed or evolved in such a way as to be resistant to total failure despite partial damage.

• Resistant or impervious to failure regardless of user input or unexpected conditions.

• Not greatly influenced by errors in assumptions about the distribution of sample errors.