adj.
- no longer needed or useful; superfluous.
▸(of words) able to be omitted without loss of meaning or function.
▸Engineering (of a component) not strictly necessary but included in case another component fails.
- Brit. (of a person) no longer employed because there is no more work available.
Derivative
- redundancy n.
(pl. redundancies)
. - redundantly adv.
Etymology
C16 (in the sense ‘abundant’): from L. redundant-, redundare (see redound).