redundant

adjectiveattested in dialogue

Canada//ɹɪˈdʌn.dənt//
Australia//ɹɪˈdɐn.dənt//
New Zealand//ɹəˈdɐn.dənt//

Superfluous; exceeding what is necessary, no longer needed.

adjective

1
Superfluous; exceeding what is necessary, no longer needed.
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; […]
In the living state, the body is observed to receive aliment; to assimilate a part; to evacuate what is redundant or useless; […]
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.
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.
2
Repetitive or needlessly wordy.
3
Dismissed from employment because no longer needed.
Joyce Barnaby: You don't kill someone because they made you redundant. DCI Tom Barnaby: Not in the town, dear, but this is the country. And, in the country, anything goes.
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.
The two lines are mainly used for redundant and therefore fault-tolerant message transmission, but they can also transmit different messages.
5
Containing duplicate pathways to send a message.

Etymology

From Latin redundāns, present participle of redundō (“to overflow, redound”), from red- (“again, back”) + undō (“to surge, flood”), from unda (“a wave”).

Forms

comparative: more redundant
superlative: most redundant

reduced · Made smaller or less; having undergone reduction.reducing · That causes reduction.reduction · The act, process, or result of reducing.

redundant · Superfluous; exceeding what is necessary, no longer needed.

Reece · A surname from Welsh.reed · Any of various types of tall stiff perennial grass-like…Reed · A surname from Old English, a spelling variant of Reid.

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