redundant
exceeding what is needed or useful; superfluous: You can shorten the article by omitting these redundant paragraphs.I decided that a sixth pair of dress shoes was redundant.
characterized by unnecessary words or repetition; verbose: He writes in a redundant style.
serving or added as a backup; extra: If the latch fails on this backwards-opening car hood, the wind will blow it down rather than up, so a redundant latch is not needed.
having one or more extra or duplicate parts or features: The genetic code is redundant, meaning that more than one codon can map to the same amino acid.
Chiefly British. (of a worker) laid off or unemployed: If the mine were to close, the result would be 183 redundant workers.
Computers.
(of code, or of a signal communicating a message) including or encoding more than the required information, so as to provide a fallback, a means of validating data, an accommodation for different platforms, etc.
(of network or system components) providing an additional traffic path or storage place for data, so that if one fails, the other can take over or serve as backup.
Engineering.
(of a structural member or part) designed to withstand stresses greater than or different from those that can be calculated or predicted.
(of a structure) having members or parts designed to withstand stresses that cannot be calculated or predicted.
(of a complete truss) having additional members enabling it to withstand loads that are not centered.: Compare complete (def. 8), incomplete (def. 3).
(of a device, circuit, etc.) having extra or duplicate parts that can serve as a backup in case other parts malfunction.
Linguistics. including or encoding more information than is necessary for communication: for example, in my three sons, the plural ending "-s" on sons is redundant because three already indicates plurality.
extremely lush or abundant: The jungle, with its exuberant, redundant vegetation, hides bizarre and exotic creatures.
Origin of redundant
1synonym study For redundant
Other words for redundant
Other words from redundant
- re·dun·dant·ly, adverb
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How to use redundant in a sentence
This makes the two hemispheres largely redundant — they carry the same information about the lines — so we can forget the southern one.
A Mathematician’s Unanticipated Journey Through the Physical World | Kevin Hartnett | December 16, 2020 | Quanta MagazineIt’s all set against the challenge of the search for a business model, people being asked to do more work, others being made redundant.
‘It’s a silent epidemic’: Mental health in newsrooms needs more attention | Jessica Davies | December 7, 2020 | DigidaySome models are multi-cookers, which will allow them to replace otherwise redundant devices in your cabinet and on your countertop, thereby saving space just by being there.
It is healthy to maintain redundant databases, collected by active communities, so that data can be challenged in order to keep the civic space open and global.
The apps keeping Rio’s residents safe from stray bullets | Niall Firth | November 26, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewThe resulting surface is a highly redundant representation of the dodecahedron, with 10 copies of each pentagon.
Mathematicians Report New Discovery About the Dodecahedron | Erica Klarreich | August 31, 2020 | Quanta Magazine
On some issues, Puck was so mired in its own times that the commentary is redundant.
The Magazine That Made—and Unmade—Politicians | Anthony Haden-Guest | November 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe sheer amount of redundant bureaucracy needs to be eliminated.
America’s Advanced Stealth Jet Flies on 1990s Tech | Dave Majumdar | October 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOverall, The Judge wants to be insightful and funny and sad, but it instead ends up being clichéd and redundant.
Robert Downey Jr. Just Made the Year’s Sappiest Flick | Alex Suskind | September 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt almost seems that an “official” investigation will be redundant.
MH17 Is the World’s First Open-Source Air Crash Investigation | Clive Irving | July 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe waitress recommends that we get our pannukakku with nisu toast, which seems redundant—toast with pancakes?
Welcome to Yooperland, A Little Slice of Finland in Michigan | Jane & Michael Stern | May 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWithin were the park and the deer, and the mansion rearing its brilliant columns amidst the redundant groves of a Spanish autumn.
The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 3 of 4 | Jane PorterOn p. 21 The redundant double quotation mark after "grandure" has been deleted.
Two Burlesques of Lord Chesterfield's Letters. | AnonymousFor a time there was enthusiastic cutting of septal spurs and burning of redundant mucosa and cauterizing of sensitive areas.
The Treatment of Hay Fever | George Frederick LaidlawThe phrase seems redundant, but ‘trivial’ may here be used in the strict sense of common or well-known.
Milton's Comus | John MiltonHe stood six feet six inches high in his stockings, and straight as an arrow, without any redundant flesh.
The Old Pike | Thomas B. Searight
British Dictionary definitions for redundant
/ (rɪˈdʌndənt) /
surplus to requirements; unnecessary or superfluous
verbose or tautological
deprived of one's job because it is no longer necessary for efficient operation: he has been made redundant
(of components, information, etc) duplicated or added as a precaution against failure, error, etc
Origin of redundant
1Derived forms of redundant
- redundantly, adverb
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