Usually means: Unnecessary repetition of elements, information.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word redundant:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. redundant: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. redundant, redundant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. redundant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. redundant: Collins English Dictionary
  5. redundant: Vocabulary.com
  6. Redundant, redundant: Wordnik
  7. redundant: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. redundant: Wiktionary
  9. redundant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. redundant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. redundant: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. redundant: Dictionary.com
  13. redundant: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. redundant: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Redundant (song), Redundant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Redundant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. redundant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. redundant: Rhymezone
  19. redundant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. redundant: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Redundant: Britih-American Dictionary
  22. redundant: Free Dictionary
  23. redundant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. redundant: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. redundant: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Redundant: CCI Computer
  2. redundant: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. redundant: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. redundant: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Superfluous; exceeding what is necessary, no longer needed.
adjective:  (of words, writing, etc) Repetitive or needlessly wordy.
adjective:  (chiefly British, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia) Dismissed from employment because no longer needed.
adjective:  Duplicating or able to duplicate the function of another component of a system, providing backup in the event the other component fails.
adjective:  (computing) (of topology) containing duplicate pathways to send a message.

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