Usually means: Duplication to ensure reliability, safety.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word redundancy:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. redundancy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. redundancy: Merriam-Webster
  3. redundancy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. redundancy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. redundancy: Collins English Dictionary
  6. redundancy: Vocabulary.com
  7. Redundancy, redundancy: Wordnik
  8. redundancy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. redundancy: Wiktionary
  10. redundancy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. redundancy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. redundancy: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. redundancy: Dictionary.com
  14. redundancy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Redundancy (engineering), Redundancy (information theory), Redundancy (linguistics), Redundancy (total quality management), Redundancy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Redundancy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. redundancy: Rhymezone
  18. Redundancy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. redundancy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. redundancy: FreeDictionary.org
  21. redundancy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. redundancy: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Redundancy: Glossary of English Grammar Terms
  2. Redundancy: Lexicon of Linguistics

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Redundancy (computing), redundancy: Legal dictionary
  3. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. redundancy: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Redundancy: Cybernetics and Systems
  3. Redundancy: Linktionary Networking Glossary
  4. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Redundancy (Programming), Redundancy (computing), redundancy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Redundancy (computing), redundancy: Medical dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Redundancy: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. GLOSSARY OF ORDINATION-RELATED TERMS (No longer online)
  3. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. redundancy: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The state of being redundant
noun:  A superfluity; something redundant or excessive; a needless repetition in language
noun:  Duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components.
noun:  Duplication of parts of a message to guard against transmission errors.
noun:  (chiefly UK, Australia, New Zealand) The state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary; the dismissal of such an employee; a layoff.
noun:  (law) surplusage inserted in a pleading which may be rejected by the court without impairing the validity of what remains.

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