Redundant

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  • adjective. Exceeding what is necessary or natural; superfluous.
  • adjective. Needlessly wordy or repetitive in expression.
  • adjective. Of or relating to linguistic redundancy.
  • adjective. Dismissed or laid off from work, as for being no longer needed.
  • adjective. Of or involving redundancy in electronic equipment.
  • adjective. Of or involving redundancy in the transmission of messages.
  • adjective. Degenerate.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Noting a condition of the wing membrane in bats when it extends well down on the leg, and on the arm embraces the thumb beyond the first phalanx.
  • Rolling or flowing back, as a wave or surge.
  • Superfluous; exceeding what is natural or necessary; superabundant; exuberant.
  • Using or containing more words or images than are necessary or useful: as, a redundant style.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Exceeding what is natural or necessary; superabundant; exuberant.
  • adjective. Using more worrds or images than are necessary or useful; pleonastic.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Superfluous; exceeding what is necessary.
  • adjective. Repetitive or needlessly wordy.
  • adjective. Dismissed from employment because no longer needed.
  • adjective. Duplicating or able to duplicate the function of another component of a system, providing back-up in the event the other component fails.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. repetition of same sense in different words
  • adjective. more than is needed, desired, or required
  • Word Usage
    "The term redundant design means that when one system fails, another carries the load."