Both Uses
redundant
in
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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- It's a redundancy.†
Chpt 12
- Oh, you mean, redundant, like saying the same thing over and over but in different ways?
Chpt 12 *redundant = more than is needed -- especially repeating ideas
Definitions:
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(1)
(redundant) more than is needed -- often something that is unnecessarily repeated
or in technical usage: describing a secondary component designed to work if the primary component fails - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)