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redundant

adj
/ɹɪˈdʌn.dənt/CA/ɹɪˈdɐn.dənt/

Etymology

From Latin redundāns, present participle of redundō (“to overflow, redound”), from red- (“again, back”) + undō (“to surge, flood”), from unda (“a wave”).

  1. borrowed from redundāns

Definitions

  1. Superfluous

    Superfluous; exceeding what is necessary, no longer needed.

    • It is allowed, that Senates and great Councils are often troubled with redundant, ebullient, and other peccant Humours, with many Diſeaſes of the Head and more of the Heart; […]
    • In the living state, the body is observed to receive aliment; to assimilate a part; to evacuate what is redundant or useless; […]
    • A key driver has been the approval of a new housing and employment development called Fawley Waterside, with 1,500 homes planned on the site of a redundant power station on the edge of Southampton Water.

  2. Repetitive or needlessly wordy.

  3. Dismissed from employment because no longer needed.

    • Four employees were made redundant.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Duplicating or able to duplicate the function of another component of a system, providing…

      Duplicating or able to duplicate the function of another component of a system, providing backup in the event the other component fails.

      • The two lines are mainly used for redundant and therefore fault-tolerant message transmission, but they can also transmit different messages.

    2. Containing duplicate pathways to send a message.

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Derived

georedundant, irredundant, nonredundant, redundant acronym syndrome, redundantant, redundant array of independent disks, redundant colon, redundantly, redundundant, reredundant, semiredundant

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for redundant. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA