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noun, plural -cies.

the state of being redundant.

superfluous repetition or overlapping, especially of words.

a redundant thing, part, or amount; superfluity.

the provision of additional or duplicate systems, equipment, etc., that function in case an operating part or system fails, as in a spacecraft.

Linguistics.

the inclusion of more information than is necessary for communication, as in those cars, where both words are marked for plurality.

the additional, predictable information so included.

the degree of predictability thereby created.

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Chiefly British.

the condition or fact of being unemployed; unemployment.

a layoff.

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Also, re·dun·dance.

Origin:
1595–1605; < Latin redundantia an overflowing, excess, derivative of redundāns redundant; see -ancy

Can be confused: redundancy, tautology.

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Redundancy is always a great word to know.

So is intimate borrowing. Does it mean:

the borrowing of linguistic forms by one language or dialect from another when both occupy a single geographical or cultural community

a word made by putting together parts of other words; motel, brunch, guesstimate

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Each dish is a neat tableau, with little or no redundancy.

Of course, the best safety practices involve redundancy.

Performance-related pay is the norm, and redundancy commonplace.

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Each dish is a neat tableau, with little or no redundancy.

Of course, the best safety practices involve redundancy.

Performance-related pay is the norm, and redundancy commonplace.

He points out that the roach escape mechanism has an admirable redundancy.

Pioneers should not be penalized for being thorough, cautious and for putting redundancy into any design.

Yes, traditional twin engine aircraft are considered safe because the second engine offers redundancy.

He is about to open a restaurant where the servers will have novel attributes: triple redundancy and backup batteries.

We haven't got that kind of redundancy in our ownership.

Downturns certainly help focus managers' minds, especially when the spectre of redundancy haunts the office corridors.

If they dont data capture then you have to fall back on transcription and multiple redundancy.

Redundancy of collections has become a common role of the global network of seed banks.

TO say that one should beware a flight into commodities is, in investment terms, almost a redundancy.

From an evolutionary point of view, loops seem inefficient because of the redundancy inherent in a looped network.

Redundancy and decentralization are our friends, and the enemies of tyrants and monopolies the world round.

RC lacks redundancy and when it fails it is sudden and catastrophic.

For information about redundancy in the genetic code, see any biology textbook.

But it also hints at the potential redundancy of some of the bank's broader offerings.

He added a heart-stopping drug to the mix to provide a painless, quick death with built-in redundancy.

Because you feel comfortable that there's redundancy.

The essay collection is also haunted by the ghost of redundancy.

Obviously if you do fit these underground along road routes etc, it does appear safer, yet you need redundancy and servicability.

The expense in build further from the ocean and with sufficient redundancy is too great.

In literature or journalism, a redundancy is something to be avoided.

And there is a lot of redundancy built into the normal process.

My electronics background reminds me that there is a compromise method of redundancy in connection with power supplies.

It is nature of a beast without redundancy and a sudden-failure nature.

The shutdown was cushioned by redundancy payments, retraining and a buoyant labour market.

They need not all be generating at the lower speeds giving a large measure of back up and redundancy.

Then there's the redundancy in the wire support in our system.

But, by their nature, redundancy is built into these programmes.

Redundancy aside, it explains thoroughly what you get with the game.

Having to design components with triple redundancy while limiting weight is no simple endeavor.

TempleReady addresses one of the biggest bugaboos of the temple ordinance system: redundancy.

Redundancy is the hallmark of any biological system, insuring it against easy extinction.

Third, nuclear plant operators are proud of the redundancy of their multiply layered safety back-up systems.

Reduce redundancy by putting any words that would be repeated in the answers in the stem.

His proposed solution of caching linked pages on referring sites ensures redundancy but not security.

One is that redundancy packages are a hefty expense that many weaker companies simply cannot afford.

The intent of the mixture is to provide toxic redundancy so that each drug alone would bring on death.

PC-based systems are not set up to provide the safety and redundancy achieved by mainframes.

It seems there is too much redundancy in that program.

Larger numbers of more different kinds of jets means greater redundancy and fewer single points of.

Redundancy costs incurred this year will be largely offset by savings from the.

Greenstein said has boosted search capabilities for scholars and helped reduce redundancy in acquisitions.

Garment-workers will doubtless continue to feel the pinch and suffer redundancy and lost income.

It needs no outside power to function, but it's used as a redundancy to the main signal.

Lumi, the brain's neural wiring has enough redundancy that motor skills can be relearned after a stroke.

Many students had used redundancy money to help fund their studies and have moderated their hopes of what might come next.

Nuclear energy is expensive and not going anywhere the redundancy needed in safety will make any new plants white elephants.

Yet there's a danger of redundancy when the book is considered as a whole.

Such redundancy morally is theft from the student by the university.

Drawing on existing technologies and those that may come to be, it transforms redundancy into efficiency.

And despite the waves of redundancy notices going out both to.

Gartner emphasizes the importance of developing and maintaining redundancy and business resumption plans.

Two turtle doves represent a redundancy that is simply not cost effective.

However, for me, it would raise the question of the amount of redundancy in your department.

High non-wage employment costs, coupled with tight redundancy rules, mean that companies make do with small payrolls.

There was no system to help cut down on redundancy or increase collaboration.

He might have cut out or held down some grim stretches that make for redundancy.

Public authorities wanting to reduce staff should be made to pay redundancy with pension rights frozen.

JP, the problem with that sentence is the redundancy.

The new probe is a copy of the original, but with redundancy in all of its critical instruments.

Redundancy multiplied many times would surely be the charge.

The book's redundancy is only the first of its problems.

Anyway, while redundancy is a real problem, it's definitely not the primary driver of bureaucracy.

In complex systems, redundancy is the soul of reliability.

It seems to me that there is a tremendous redundancy in labor.

Most damaging is that a dollar spent on redundancy is a dollar not spent on education or innovation.

The filling is so good that its redundancy in the two dishes is irrelevant.

Old-school homemakers may consider it a silly redundancy.

These are heady times for this franchise, which was fingered for redundancy in the financial quivers of the mid-'90s.

But even as the other utilities gained independent real estate, the redundancy remained to accommodate old software.

The goal is to reduce some of the redundancy in the system.

Bitly says it has multiple layers of redundancy and is establishing an archive to help counter downtime.

Jacoby said the system has multiple levels of redundancy built into its control protocols for extra margins of safety.

Adding inventories and backup suppliers reduces risk by increasing the redundancy in a supply system.

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World English Dictionary

redundancy (rɪˈdʌndənsɪ)

—n , pl -cies
1.	a. the state or condition of being redundant or superfluous, esp superfluous in one's job
	b. (as modifier): a redundancy payment
2.	excessive proliferation or profusion, esp of superfluity
3.	duplication of components in electronic or mechanical equipment so that operations can continue following failure of a part
4.	repetition of information or inclusion of additional information to reduce errors in telecommunication transmissions and computer processing

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Cultural Dictionary

redundancy definition

Unnecessary repetition in speech or writing. The expression freedom and liberty is redundant.

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redundancy definition

1. The provision of multiple interchangeable components to perform a single function in order to provide resilience (to cope with failures and errors). Redundancy normally applies primarily to hardware. For example, a cluster may contain two or three computers doing the same job. They could all be active all the time thus giving extra performance through parallel processing and load balancing; one could be active and the others simply monitoring its activity so as to be ready to take over if it failed ("warm standby"); the "spares" could be kept turned off and only switched on when needed ("cold standby"). Another common form of hardware redundancy is disk mirroring.
2. data redundancy.
(1995-05-09)

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