redundancy

("redundancy" is also a: user.)

by Zorin

Sat Nov 13 1999 at 8:50:39

In a critical application, having two or more of an important resource improves reliability. If one resource fails, the other is there to take over. This is helpful in power supplies, airplanes, and high-end servers. See airplane rule.

by Accipiter

Mon Jan 29 2001 at 22:40:23

by Webster 1913

Wed Dec 22 1999 at 2:32:18

Re*dun"dance (r?*d?n"dans), Re*dun"dan*cy (-dan*s?), n. [L. redundantia: cf. F. redondance.]

The quality or state of being redundant; superfluity; superabundance; excess.

That which is redundant or in excess; anything superfluous or superabundant.

Labor . . . throws off redundacies. Addison.

Surplusage inserted in a pleading which may be rejected by the court without impairing the validity of what remains.

airplane rule	recursion	Department of Redundancy Department	Redundant
The Metanode Destruction Team	The Foolish Virgin	Committee to Fight Redundancy Committee	it does exactly what it says on the tin
codon	ATM	Redundant expressions in English	Facetious
Post	LCD	high-end servers	Rf
EMP	How to encode a message in a deck of cards	Poor Law	An Introduction to Data Compression, MPEG Video, and DVD Technology
Forming comparative and superlative adjectives in Latin	Mathematical Operators