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Definition
more than is needed — often something that is unnecessarily repeatedor in technical usage: a secondary component designed to work if the primary component fails; or of such a system
- What is clarifying for one reader can be a redundant distraction for another.
redundant = more than is needed
- The company carries the same customer names and addresses in four different computer systems. Eliminating the redundant data will simplify mailing list management.
- After the merger, they concluded the office was redundant.
- At least the reviewer has a sense of humor when she described the art as clichéd, redundant and unimaginative.
- [decentralized decision-making] creates a form of redundancy, which works to the relative advantage of those individuals, groups, and firms that are most resistant to these irrational tendencies.Richard A. Epstein -- Skepticism and Freedom
- The specification called for a redundant network infrastructure.
- Every member of the jury found the tenth character witness to be redundant and unnecessarily emotional.
- At the risk of being redundant, I return to my original proposition.
- The report identified redundant staff at the United Nations.
- They are using citation searches to minimize the problem of redundant publication.
- So the instant Risa gets back to the infirmary, she calls for a messenger, and another and another, sending them each off with redundant notes reminding kids to take their medications. Finally, after her fourth call, the messenger they send is Lev.Neal Shusterman -- Unwind
- To Vic it was so much redundancy; he knew in his guts that it had been Kemp.Stephen King -- Cujo
- Cavalletto dropped on one knee, and implored him, with a redundancy of gesticulation, to hear what had brought himself into such foul company.Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
- Redundant though it may sound, we are sheer point of view. We cannot influence things in any way.Haruki Murakami -- After Dark
- A range of one thousand kilometers, which is redundant from our viewpointDon DeLillo -- Underworld
- He was a small, short, youngish man, sprinkled all over his face with freckles, and wearing redundant yellow hair.Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
- Any method of communication needs redundancy, or information can be lost.Robert A. Heinlein -- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
- Oh, you mean, redundant, like saying the same thing over and over but in different ways?Sherman Alexie -- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
- "I'm going," she said, redundantly.Sarah Dessen -- The Truth About Forever
- In that case, perhaps my message is rather redundant.Kazuo Ishiguro -- The Remains of the Day
redundant = unnecessarily repeated
redundant = unnecessary
redundancy = more than is needed
redundancy = more than is needed
redundant = more than is needed
redundant = more than is needed
redundant = more than is needed
redundancy = a secondary component designed to work if the primary component fails
redundant = more than is needed — especially repeating ideas
redundantly = even though it wasn't necessary (It was already know that she was going.)
redundant = repetitious (repeats what was previously said)
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