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Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (4)
1. repetition of messages to reduce the probability of errors in transmission;
2. the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded;
- Example: "the use of industrial robots created redundancy among workers"
[syn: redundancy, redundance]
3. (electronics) a system design that duplicates components to provide alternatives in case one component fails;
4. repetition of an act needlessly;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Redundance \Re*dun"dance\ (r?*d?n"dans), Redundancy \Re*dun"dan*cy\ (-dan*s?), n. [L. redundantia: cf. F. redondance.] [1913 Webster] 1. The quality or state of being redundant; superfluity; superabundance; excess. [1913 Webster] 2. That which is redundant or in excess; anything superfluous or superabundant. [1913 Webster] Labor . . . throws off redundacies. --Addison. [1913 Webster] 3. (Law) Surplusage inserted in a pleading which may be rejected by the court without impairing the validity of what remains. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
132 Moby Thesaurus words for "redundancy": EDP, abundance, amplitude, avalanche, battology, bedizenment, bit, channel, circumambages, circumbendibus, circumlocution, cloud of words, communication explosion, communication theory, copiousness, data retrieval, data storage, decoding, deluge, diffuseness, diffusion, diffusiveness, duplication, duplication of effort, effusion, effusiveness, electronic data processing, embarras de richesses, embellishment, encoding, enough, entropy, excess, expletive, extravagance, extravagancy, exuberance, fat, featherbedding, fecundity, fertility, filling, flatulence, flood, fluency, formlessness, frill, frills, frippery, gingerbread, gush, gushing, inflatedness, inflation, information explosion, information theory, inundation, landslide, lavishness, logorrhea, luxury, macrology, money to burn, more than enough, needlessness, noise, ornamentation, outpour, overabundance, overaccumulation, overadornment, overage, overbounteousness, overcopiousness, overdose, overflow, overlap, overlavishness, overluxuriance, overmeasure, overmuchness, overnumerousness, overplentifulness, overplenty, overplus, overpopulation, overprofusion, oversufficiency, oversupply, padding, palilogy, payroll padding, periphrase, periphrasis, plenty, pleonasm, plethora, prodigality, productivity, profuseness, profusion, prolificacy, prolificity, prolixity, rampancy, rankness, redundance, reiteration, reiterativeness, repetition for effect, repetitiveness, roundabout, signal, spate, stammering, stuttering, superabundance, superfluity, superfluousness, superflux, surplus, surplusage, talkativeness, tautologism, tautology, teemingness, tirade, tumidity, turgidity, unnecessariness, verbality, verbosity
