Dictionary Definition
redundancy
Noun
1 repetition of messages to reduce the
probability of errors in transmission
2 the attribute of being superfluous and
unneeded; "the use of industrial robots created redundancy among
workers" [syn: redundance]
3 (electronics) a system design that duplicates
components to provide alternatives in case one component
fails
4 repetition of an act needlessly
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /ˈɹiːˌdʌnd.n̩siː/ ̩
Noun
- The state of being redundant; a superfluity; something redundant or excessive; a needless repetition in language; excessive wordiness.
- Duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components.
- Duplication of parts of a message to guard against transmission errors.
- In the context of "mostly|UK": The state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary; the dismissal of such an employee; a layoff.
Translations
The state of being redundant
- Finnish: tarpeettomuus, redundanssi, ylimäärä
- German: Redundanz
- Dutch: overbodig
Duplication of components or circuits to provide
survival of the total system in case of failure of single
components
- Finnish: päällekkyys, redundanssi
- German: Redundanz
- Dutch: over compleet
Duplication of parts of a message to guard
against transmission errors
- Finnish: redundanssi
- German: Redundanz
The state of being unemployed because one's job
is no longer necessary
- Dutch: overbodig
Extensive Definition
Redundancy may refer to:
- Redundancy (engineering)
- Redundancy (information theory)
- Redundancy (language)
- Redundancy (total quality management)
- Redundancy (user interfaces)
- Data redundancy
- Logic redundancy
- Layoff, dismissal of an employee for lack of available work
- Redundant code, computer program code that is executed but has no effect on the output of the program
- Database normalization, the elimination of redundancy in databases
- "Redundant" (song), a song recorded by the American rock band Green Day in 1997
redundancy in German: Redundanz
redundancy in French: Redondance
redundancy in Galician: Redundancia
redundancy in Italian: Ridondanza
redundancy in Dutch: Redundantie
redundancy in Polish: Redundancja
redundancy in Swedish: Redundans
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
EDP,
abundance, amplitude, avalanche, battology, bedizenment, bit, channel, circumambages, circumbendibus, circumlocution, cloud of
words, communication explosion, communication theory, copiousness, data retrieval,
data storage, decoding,
deluge, diffuseness, diffusion, diffusiveness, duplication, duplication of
effort, effusion,
effusiveness,
electronic data processing, embarras de richesses, embellishment, encoding, enough, entropy, excess, expletive, extravagance, extravagancy, exuberance, fat, featherbedding, fecundity, fertility, filling, flatulence, flood, fluency, formlessness, frill, frills, frippery, gingerbread, gush, gushing, inflatedness, inflation, information
explosion, information theory, inundation, landslide, lavishness, logorrhea, luxury, macrology, money to burn, more
than enough, needlessness, noise, ornamentation, outpour, overabundance, overaccumulation,
overadornment,
overage, overbounteousness,
overcopiousness,
overdose, overflow, overlap, overlavishness, overluxuriance, overmeasure, overmuchness, overnumerousness,
overplentifulness,
overplenty, overplus, overpopulation, overprofusion, oversufficiency,
oversupply, padding, palilogy, payroll padding,
periphrase, periphrasis, plenty, pleonasm, plethora, prodigality, productivity, profuseness, profusion, prolificacy, prolificity, prolixity, rampancy, rankness, redundance, reiteration, reiterativeness,
repetition for effect, repetitiveness, roundabout, signal, spate, stammering, stuttering, superabundance, superfluity, superfluousness,
superflux, surplus, surplusage, talkativeness, tautologism, tautology, teemingness, tirade, tumidity, turgidity, unnecessariness,
verbality, verbosity