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redundancy
/ɹɪˈdʌndən(t)si/
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What does redundancy mean?
noun
- The state of being redundant.
- A superfluity; something redundant or excessive; a needless repetition in language.
- A duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components.
More meanings (3)
noun
- Duplication of parts of a message to guard against transmission errors.
- The state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary; the dismissal of such an employee; a layoff.
- surplusage inserted in a pleading which may be rejected by the court without impairing the validity of what remains.
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IPA pronunciation
/ɹɪˈdʌndən(t)si/
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This I consider as a mere redundancy in the plan, as the right for which it provides would result of itself from the office.
Garway's Circular embodies the redundancy of a modern legal document with the pretentious ignorance and hifaluting language of the so-called medical treatises of his day.
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It can seldom happen that much can be spared from the circulating money of the country; because in that there can seldom be much redundancy.
This feature will appear singular to those who are unacquainted with the character of the popular poetry of the south, and are accustomed to the redundancy and frequently tedious repetition of a more polished muse.
I looked at my pupil, who did not at first appear to notice me: she was quite a child, perhaps seven or eight years old, slightly built, with a pale, small-featured face, and a redundancy of hair falling in curls to her waist.