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re⋅dun⋅dant

  [ri-duhn-duhnt]
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–adjective
1. characterized by verbosity or unnecessary repetition in expressing ideas; prolix: a redundant style.
2. being in excess; exceeding what is usual or natural: a redundant part.
3. having some unusual or extra part or feature.
4. characterized by superabundance or superfluity: lush, redundant vegetation.
5. Engineering.
a. (of a structural member) not necessary for resisting statically determined stresses.
b. (of a structure) having members designed to resist other than statically determined stresses; hyperstatic.
c. noting a complete truss having additional members for resisting eccentric loads. Compare complete (def. 8), incomplete (def. 3).
d. (of a device, circuit, computer system, etc.) having excess or duplicate parts that can continue to perform in the event of malfunction of some of the parts.
6. Linguistics. characterized by redundancy; predictable.
7. Computers. containing more bits or characters than are required, as a parity bit inserted for checking purposes.
8. Chiefly British. removed or laid off from a job.
Origin:
1595–1605; < L redundant- (s. of redundāns), prp. of redundāre to flow back, overflow, be excessive. See redound, -ant

Related forms:
re⋅dun⋅dant⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
1. verbose, repetitive. See wordy. 2. excessive; useless; superfluous, tautologous.
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re·dun·dant   (rĭ-dŭn'dənt)   
adj.  
  1. Exceeding what is necessary or natural; superfluous.
  2. Needlessly wordy or repetitive in expression: a student paper filled with redundant phrases.
  3. Of or relating to linguistic redundancy.
  4. Chiefly British Dismissed or laid off from work, as for being no longer needed.
  5. Electronics Of or involving redundancy in electronic equipment.
  6. Of or involving redundancy in the transmission of messages.

[Latin redundāns, redundant-, present participle of redundāre, to overflow : re-, red-, re- + undāre, to surge (from unda, wave; see wed-1 in Indo-European roots).]
re·dun'dant·ly adv.
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Redundant

Re*dun"dant\ (-dant), a. [L. redundans, -antis, p. pr. of redundare: cf. F. redondant. See Redound.]

1. Exceeding what is natural or necessary; superabundant; exuberant; as, a redundant quantity of bile or food.

Notwithstanding the redundant oil in fishes, they do not increase fat so much as flesh. --Arbuthnot.

2. Using more worrds or images than are necessary or useful; pleonastic.

Where an suthor is redundant, mark those paragraphs to be retrenched. --I. Watts.

Syn: Superfluous; superabundant; excessive; exuberant; overflowing; plentiful; copious.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : redundant
Spanish: despedido,
German: freigesetzt,
Japanese: 失業した
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redundant 
1594, from L. redundantem (nom. redundans), prp. of redundare "come back, contribute," lit. "overflow," from re- "again" + undare "rise in waves," from unda "a wave" (see water).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry: re·dun·dant
Pronunciation: ri-'d&n-d&nt
Function: adjective
: characterized by or containing an excess or superfluousamount <redundant pharyngeal tissue> <redundant skin of the eyelids>
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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