redundancy
/rɪˈdʌndənsi/
noun
- The state of being no longer needed or useful, especially when a person loses their job because their employer no longer needs them.
- The company announced 200 redundancies due to the merger.
- He took voluntary redundancy and started his own business.
- After ten years of service, she was shocked to receive a redundancy notice.
- The quality of having more parts or information than is necessary; unnecessary repetition.
- In engineering, a bit of redundancy in the system can prevent total failure.
- The editor cut the redundancy from the article to make it clearer.
- The report was full of redundancy, repeating the same data in different sections.
- A part of a system that is not strictly necessary but provides a backup in case of failure.
- The network uses redundancy so that if one server fails, another takes over.
- Redundancy in the power grid ensures that a single outage doesn't cause a blackout.
- The spacecraft has built-in redundancy for its navigation system.
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