英语词汇“redundant”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	redundant
释义	re·dun·dant I. \-nt\ adjective Etymology: Latin redundant-, redundans, present participle of redundare to overflow, be in excess — more at redound 1. a. : exceeding what is necessary or normal : superfluous, surplus < older areas, plants and occupations are becoming redundant and obsolete — Solomon Barkin > < so many books on heraldry … that yet another might be thought redundant — Times. Literary Supplement > < a redundant secretion of bile > specifically : pleonastic < at the risk of being redundant, I return to my original proposition — J.B.Conant > b. : characterized by or containing an excess < the skin … was redundant and lay too loosely on her fingers — Jean Stafford > specifically : immaterial 3b < the court may order stricken from any pleading … any redundant, immaterial, impertinent, or scandalous matter — U.S. Code > 2. : characterized by abundance : profuse, lavish < skirts became somewhat shorter and less redundant — G.M.Trevelyan > 3. : expanding beyond ordinary bounds : swelling, overflowing < a gradual spilling over of the redundant population — Ellen Semple > Synonyms: see wordy II. adjective 1. : serving as a duplicate for preventing failure of an entire system (as a spacecraft) upon failure of a single component 2. Britain : being out of work : laid off : discharged < an air hostess who had been made redundant — A.N.Wilson >
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