redundancy

Definitions

General Science

• noun the situation of not being needed because other similar things exist

Accounting

• noun the dismissal of a person whose job no longer needs to be done

Aviation

• noun the duplication of component parts of a system to enable the system to function even if one component fails

Commerce

• noun a person who has lost a job because they are not needed any more

Computing

• noun the process of providing extra components in a system in case there is a breakdown

Economics

• noun the dismissal of a person whose skills are no longer needed

Electronics

• The quality or state of being redundant.
• The duplication of components, circuits, devices, equipment, systems, mechanisms, procedures, or the like, to allow for continued operation after a failure, malfunction, error, or other problem. For example, the incorporation of redundant components for fault-tolerance, the use of additional bits in error correction, or the use of a RAID for fault-tolerance and data backup.

Law

• noun a state where someone is no longer employed, because the job being done is no longer needed

Media Studies

• noun the proportion of words in a piece of communication that are not meaningful.

Military

• noun the practice of maintaining additional military resources to replace those which are destroyed or neutralized

Nearby Definitions of “redundancy”

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• recovery
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• redundancy
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• reference
• reflector
• refraction
• register

Contexts for “redundancy”

11 definitions in context
• General Science
• Accounting
• Aviation
• Commerce
• Computing
• Economics
• Electronics
• Law
• Media Studies
• Military