redundant

From Latin redundans, present participle of redundare (“to overflow, redound”), from red- (“again, back”) + undo (“I surge, flood”), from unda (“a wave”).

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈdʌn.dənt/

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redundant (comparative more redundant, superlative most redundant)

1. Superfluous; exceeding what is necessary.
2. (of words, writing, etc) Repetitive or needlessly wordy.
3. (chiefly Britain, New Zealand, Australia) Dismissed from employment because no longer needed.

   Four employees were made redundant.

4. Duplicating or able to duplicate the function of another component of a system, providing backup in the event the other component fails.
   • 2013, Tom Denton, Automobile Electrical and Electronic Systems, page 142:

     The two lines are mainly used for redundant and therefore fault-tolerant message transmission, but they can also transmit different messages.

• non-redundant

• redound
• redundance
• redundancy

• (dismissed from employment): surplus to requirements

• redundant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• redundant in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• redundant at OneLook Dictionary Search

From Latin redundans.

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /rə.dunˈdant/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /rə.dunˈdan/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /re.dunˈdant/

redundant (masculine and feminine plural redundants)

1. redundant

• redundantment

• redundància
• redundar

• IPA^(key): /ʀedʊnˈdant/

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• Rhymes: -ant

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redundant (comparative redundanter, superlative am redundantesten)

1. redundant

• Redundanz

• redundant in Duden online

redundant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of redundō

• redondant

Borrowed from English redundant and French redondant.

• IPA^(key): /re.dunˈdant/

redundant m or n (feminine singular redundantă, masculine plural redundanți, feminine and neuter plural redundante)

1. redundant

• redondanță