Both Uses of
redundant
in
Underworld by DeLillo
- It was one of those days in Central Park when there's a distilled sense of perception, a spareness, every line firm and unredundant, and the leaves were beginning to turn, the dogwoods and sumacs, and nothing was wasted or went unseen.†
- A range of one thousand kilometers, which is redundant from our viewpoint
*redundant = more than is needed
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