The Only Use of
redundant
in
Jane Eyre
- 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.†
Chpt 11
Definition:
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(redundant) more than is needed -- often something that is unnecessarily repeated
or in technical usage: a secondary component designed to work if the primary component fails; or of such a system