# Explicit Consistency/Availability Choice Under Partition

> The ability to choose deliberately between consistency and availability when a network partition occurs.

Record: `lexicon:explicit-consistency-availability-choice-under-partition`
Kind: capability
Layer: [Causality Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/causality-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-explicit-consistency-availability-choice-under-partition

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Assumed Total Consistency And Availability](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/assumed-total-consistency-and-availability.md) and before [Network Partition Possibility](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/network-partition-possibility.md).

## Category

- [Causality / Ordering / Distributed Time](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/causality-ordering-distributed-time.md)

## Enabled by

- [CAP Theorem](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/cap-theorem.md)

## Linked from

- [Causality / Ordering / Distributed Time](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-causality-ordering-distributed-time.md)