'Redundancy' definitions:
Definition of 'redundancy'
(from WordNet)
noun
Repetition of messages to reduce the probability of errors in transmission
noun
The attribute of being superfluous and unneeded; "the use of industrial robots created redundancy among workers" [syn: redundancy, redundance]
noun
(electronics) a system design that duplicates components to provide alternatives in case one component fails
noun
Repetition of an act needlessly
Definition of 'Redundancy'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'redundancy'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- EDP,
- 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