redundant adj

1 more than is needed, desired, or required; "trying to lose excess weight"; "found some extra change lying on the dresser"; "yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant"; "skills made redundant by technological advance"; "sleeping in the spare room"; "supernumerary ornamentation"; "it was supererogatory of her to gloat"; "delete superfluous (or unnecessary) words"; "extra ribs as well as other supernumerary internal parts"; "surplus cheese distributed to the needy" [syn: excess, extra, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus]

2 use of more words than required to express an idea; "a wordy gossipy account of a simple incident"; "a redundant text crammed with amplifications of the obvious" [syn: wordy]

3 repetition of same sense in different words; "`a true fact' and `a free gift' are pleonastic expressions"; "the phrase `a beginner who has just started' is tautological"; "at the risk of being redundant I return to my original proposition"- J.B.Conant [syn: pleonastic, tautologic, tautological]

English

Etymology

From re- "re-" and undare "to flow".

Adjective

redundant

1. Superfluous; exceeding what is necessary.
2. Repetitive or needlessly wordy.
3. In the context of "mainly|UK": Dismissed from employment because no longer needed.
4. Involving redundancy in the provision of duplicate circuits or devices.

Translations

German

Adjective

redundant

1. redundant

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

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