redundancy
Redundancy or redundant (from the Latin redundantia "abundance") stands for:
- Redundancy (information theory) , information to be left out without loss of information
- Redundancy (communication theory) , multiple naming of the same information
- Redundancy (cryptology) , difference between the maximum entropy and the entropy of a text
- Redundancy (technology) , additional technical resources as a reserve
- Overdetermination , in mathematics and geodesy the measurement of additional, unneeded quantities
See also:
- redundant acronym (repeated abbreviation)
- Redundancy reduction (lossless data compression)
- Tautology (language) (cohesive addition)
Wiktionary: Redundancy - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Wiktionary: redundant - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
