redundant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈdʌn.dənt/
ipa: /ɹɪˈdan.dənt/
Forms: form: more redundant
form: most redundant
Etymology: From Latin redundāns, present participle of redundō (“to overflow, redound”), from red- (“again, back”) + undō (“to surge, flood”), from unda (“a wave”).
Senses: examples: text: It is allowed, that Senates and great Councils are often troubled with redundant, ebullient, and other peccant Humours, with many Diſeaſes of the Head and more of the Heart; […]
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “A Further Account of the Academy. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part III (A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdribb, Luggnagg, and Japan), page 82:
text: In the living state, the body is observed to receive aliment; to assimilate a part; to evacuate what is redundant or useless; […]
ref: 1822, John Barclay, chapter I, in An Inquiry Into the Opinions, Ancient and Modern, Concerning Life and Organization, Edinburgh; London: Bell & Bradfute; Waugh & Innes; G. & W. B. Whittaker, section I, page 1:
text: A key driver has been the approval of a new housing and employment development called Fawley Waterside, with 1,500 homes planned on the site of a redundant power station on the edge of Southampton Water.
ref: 2020 December 16, “Network News: "Robust case" for Fawley branch reopening”, in Rail, page 14:
text: Two entrants shared this award for their work on two quite different stations, but with the same purpose of bringing a redundant station building back into use for the benefit of the community, with the added result of conserving an historic building.
ref: 2021 December 15, Robin Leleux, “Awards honour the best restoration projects: The Network Rail Community Award: Saltash and Stow”, in RAIL, number 946, page 58:
glosses: Superfluous; exceeding what is necessary, no longer needed.
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
publishing
writing
qualifier: etc
glosses: Repetitive or needlessly wordy.
raw_tags: of words
examples: text: Four employees were made redundant.
synonyms: surplus to requirements
glosses: Dismissed from employment because no longer needed.
examples: text: The two lines are mainly used for redundant and therefore fault-tolerant message transmission, but they can also transmit different messages.
ref: 2013, Tom Denton, Automobile Electrical and Electronic Systems, page 142:
glosses: Duplicating or able to duplicate the function of another component of a system, providing backup in the event the other component fails.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Containing duplicate pathways to send a message.
raw_tags: of topology
Synonyms: word: acervatim
word: adscititious
word: dropsical
word: duplicate
word: excessive
word: exorbitant
word: expletive
word: extra
word: extraneous
word: extravagant
word: gorged
word: inessential
word: inordinate
word: lavish
word: needless
word: nonessential
word: overflowing
word: overmuch
word: overweening
word: plethoric
word: prodigal
word: profuse
word: repetitive
word: replete
word: spare
word: superabundant
word: supererogatory
word: superfluous
word: supernumerary
word: supersaturated
word: supervacaneous
word: surplus
word: surplusage
word: too many
word: too much
word: unnecessary
word: verbose
Meronyms: word: uncalled-for
word: unneeded
Derived terms: redundant acronym syndrome
redundant array of independent disks
redundant colon
redundantly
redundundant
Related terms: word: redound
word: redundance
word: redundancy
word: drenched
word: expendable
word: turgid