Microsoft SQL Server and other RDBMSs require fast redundant sets of disks.
adjective /rɪ'dʌndənt/
1
if you are redundant, your employer no longer has a job for you。
dismissed from a job because you are no longer needed. [dismiss = /dɪs'mɪs/ verb, 2). to remove someone from their job SYN fire, sack]
(of a person) without a job because there is no more work available for you in a company.
having lost your job because your employer no longer needs you.
if someone is redundant, they have been told they must leave their job because they are no longer needed.
If you are made redundant, your employer tells you to leave because your job is no longer necessary or because your employer cannot afford to keep paying you.
(in AM, use be dismissed)
Seventy factory workers were made redundant in the resulting cuts.
make a job/position etc redundant
As the economy weakens, more and more jobs will be made redundant.
More than 200 of the company's employees have already been made redundant. [=laid off]
to be made redundant from your job.
redundant employees.
To keep the company alive, half the workforce is being made redundant.
New technology often makes old skills and even whole communities redundant.
redundant workers.
be made redundant
5,000 miners were made redundant when the tin market collapsed.
My husband was made redundant late last year.
a redundant miner.
2
not necessary because something else means or does the same thing.
repeating something else and therefore unnecessary.
not needed or useful.
(especially of a word, phrase, etc.) unnecessary because it is more than is needed.
not needed.
Something that is redundant is no longer needed because its job is being done by something else or because its job is no longer necessary or useful.
the removal of redundant information.
He edited the paper and removed any redundant information or statements.
Avoid redundant expressions in your writing.
Some people say that since all adages /'ædɪdʒ/ are old, the phrase “old adage” is redundant.
The picture has too much redundant detail.
In the sentence, "She is a single unmarried woman", the word "unmarried" is redundant.
Computers have made our paper records redundant.
Changes in technology may mean that once-valued skills are now redundant.
the conversion of redundant buildings to residential use.
3
used to describe part of a machine, system, etc., that has the same function as another part and that exists so that the entire machine, system, etc., will not fail if the main part fails.
designed to operate instead of a piece of electronic equipment or system if it fails.
The design incorporates several redundant features.
redundantly adverb
In the phrase “old adage” /'ædɪdʒ/ “old” is sometimes thought of as being used redundantly.
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