redundant
[ri-duhn-duh nt]
- characterized by verbosity or unnecessary repetition in expressing ideas; prolix: a redundant style.
- being in excess; exceeding what is usual or natural: a redundant part.
- having some unusual or extra part or feature.
- characterized by superabundance or superfluity: lush, redundant vegetation.
- Engineering.
- (of a structural member) not necessary for resisting statically determined stresses.
- (of a structure) having members designed to resist other than statically determined stresses; hyperstatic.
- noting a complete truss having additional members for resisting eccentric loads.Compare complete(def 8), incomplete(def 3).
- (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.
- Linguistics. characterized by redundancy; predictable.
- Computers. containing more bits or characters than are required, as a parity bit inserted for checking purposes.
- Chiefly British. removed or laid off from a job.
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Origin of redundant
Synonyms
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Contemporary Examples
On some issues, Puck was so mired in its own times that the commentary is redundant.
The sheer amount of redundant bureaucracy needs to be eliminated.
Overall, The Judge wants to be insightful and funny and sad, but it instead ends up being clichéd and redundant.
It almost seems that an “official” investigation will be redundant.
The debt ceiling is pointless, redundant, and a threat to our constitutional order.
Historical Examples
Its attributes of youth are the activity and eager life with which it is redundant.
Sketches from MemoryNathaniel Hawthorne
And this rosiness, so like redundant vigor, was it not the flush of her hot task?
Dr. SevierGeorge W. Cable
Nor is the term Olympus as applied to these hills a redundant flight of fancy.
Legends of WailukuCharlotte Hapai
The neck of the flap is sure to be redundant and prominent, but can be pared.
A Manual of the Operations of SurgeryJoseph Bell
The redundant use of the personal pronoun with the relative is common.
History of PhoeniciaGeorge Rawlinson
redundant
- surplus to requirements; unnecessary or superfluous
- verbose or tautological
- deprived of one's job because it is no longer necessary for efficient operationhe has been made redundant
- (of components, information, etc) duplicated or added as a precaution against failure, error, etc
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Word Origin
C17: from Latin redundans overflowing, from redundāre to run back, stream over; see redound
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Word Origin and History for redundant
adj.
1590s, from Latin redundantem (nominative redundans), present participle of redundare, literally "overflow, pour over; be over-full;" figuratively "be in excess," from re- "again" (see re-) + undare "rise in waves," from unda "a wave" (see water (n.1)). Of persons, in employment situations, from 1928, chiefly British. Related: Redundantly.
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