English > redundant: 2 senses > adjective 1| Meaning | More than is needed, desired, or required. |
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| Examples | - "yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant"
- "skills made redundant by technological advance"
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| Synonyms | excess, extra, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus |
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| Broader | unnecessary, unneeded | not necessary |
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| Spanish | excedente, excesivo, extra, redundante, sobrante, superfluo |
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| Catalan | excedent, excessiu, extra, redundant, sobrant, sobrer, superflu |
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| Nouns | redundancy | repetition of an act needlessly |
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| redundancy, redundance | the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded |
| redundancy | (electronics) a system design that duplicates components to provide alternatives in case one component fails |
| redundancy | repetition of messages to reduce the probability of errors in transmission |
