Meaning

6 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The state of being redundant.

    Redundanz

    чрезме́рностьčrezmérnostʹ, избы́точностьizbýtočnostʹ

  2. (countable, uncountable)A superfluity; something redundant or excessive; a needless repetition in language.

  3. (countable, uncountable)A duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components.

    Redundanz

    избы́точностьizbýtočnostʹ

    (electronics) a system design that duplicates components to provide alternatives in case one component fails

  4. (countable, uncountable)Duplication of parts of a message to guard against transmission errors.

    Redundanz

    избы́точностьizbýtočnostʹ

    repetition of messages to reduce the probability of errors in transmission

  5. (Australia, New Zealand, UK, countable, uncountable)The state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary; the dismissal of such an employee; a layoff.

    betriebsbedingte Kündigung, strukturelle Arbeitslosigkeit

  6. (countable, uncountable)Surplusage inserted in a pleading which may be rejected by the court without impairing the validity of what remains.

Examples

10 sentences
  1. RAID-1 achieves redundancy by mirroring data on several disks.

  2. Your database contains lots of redundancy.

  3. Tom wasn't eligible for redundancy payment.

  4. Tom's involuntary redundancy will force him to make some lifestyle changes.

  5. Redundancy is a part of language.

Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
state of being redundant:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
state of being redundant:
state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary:

Origin

From redundant + -cy.

From redundant + -cy.

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Forms

plural: redundancies
Singularredundancy
Pluralredundancies

regular

Synonyms

8 synonyms
duplication in case of transmission error:backupB2
state of being unemployed:retirementB2
state of being redundant:redundancesuperfluitysuperfluousnesspro-chrono continuum
thing that is redundant:dead wood
instance or act of dismissal:sacking
Close in meaning
  • the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded:redundance

Antonyms

3 antonyms
state of being redundant:non-redundancy
state of being unemployed:employmentB1
instance or act of dismissal:hiring

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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