REDUNDANCY

Redundancy

In engineering, redundancy is the duplication of critical components or functions of a system with the intention of increasing reliability of the system, usually in the form of a backup or fail-safe.

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redundancy

Noun

  1. The state of being redundant; a superfluity; something redundant or excessive; a needless repetition in language; excessive wordiness.
  2. Duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components.
  3. Duplication of parts of a message to guard against transmission errors.
  4. The state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary; the dismissal of such an employee; a layoff.
  5. surplusage inserted in a pleading which may be rejected by the court without impairing the validity of what remains.


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