The maximum time a packaged material can be stored under specific conditions and still meet the performance requirements specified.
The length of time a product (especially food and drugs) will last without deteriorating or without being sold.
A quality of a measurement indicating the degree to which the measure reflects the underlying construct, that is, whether it measures what it purports to measure (see reliability).
The genuinity - as distinguished from the efficacity or the regularity - of a sacrament as a result of some formal dispositions being fulfilled.
The state of being valid, authentic or genuine.
State of having legal force.