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Redundance

Definition: Redundance

Redundance

Noun

1. The attribute of being superfluous and unneeded; "the use of industrial robots created redundancy among workers".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "redundance" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1874. (references)

"Redundance" is a common misspelling or typo for: redundancy.



Synonym: Redundance

Synonym: redundancy (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Redundance

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Redundancy

Noun: redundancy, redundance; too much, too many; superabundance, superfluity, superfluence, saturation; nimiety, transcendency, exuberance, profuseness; profusion; (plenty); repletion, enough in all conscience, satis superque, lion's share; more than enough; plethora, engorgement, congestion, load, surfeit, sickener; turgescence; (expansion); overdose, overmeasure, oversupply, overflow; inundation; (water); avalanche.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Usage Frequency: Redundance

"Redundance" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Redundance" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Redundance

Expressions using "redundance": redundance pay redundance payment. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Redundance

Language Translations for "redundance"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

tepricë (margin, odd-come-short, over, overage, overbalance, overflow, overmeasure, overplus, overrun, overstock, redundancy, remain, remainder, remains, remnant, residual, residue, surplus, surplusage), tepri (excess, exuberance, exuberancy, glut, overplus, redundancy, superabundance, superfluity, surfeit), bollëk (abundance, affluence, ampleness, amplitude, exuberance, exuberancy, flowing, galore, opulence, plenitude, plenty, plethora, profusion, redundancy, riches, richness, store, superfluity, wealth). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏فصل من العمل (redundancy, terminate, termination), ‏وفرة (abundance, affluence, amplitude, exuberance, generosity, glut, liberality, opulence, opulent, plenty, profusion, pullulation, redundancy, richness, superfluity, wealth), ‏غزارة (abundance, exuberance, grubbiness, massiveness, opulence, plenty, profusion, redundancy, superabundance, wealth), ‏حشو (charging, dressing, filling, loading, pleonasm, redundancy, stuffing, tautology), ‏زيادة عن الحاجة (redundancy), ‏زيادة (addition, augment, augmentation, boost, enhancement, excess, expansion, growing, increase, increment, over, overflow, overmuch, plethora, plus, raise, redundancy, rise, superfluity, top up), ‏إسهاب (amplification, diffusion, dilatation, dilation, enlargement, lengthiness, magnification, periphrasis, prolixity, prolongation, protraction, redundancy, verbosity), ‏إسراف (exaggeration, excess, flamboyance, flamboyancy, improvidence, intemperance, luxury, prodigality, profligacy, profusion, redundancy, squandering), ‏إطناب (diffusion, periphrasis, prolixity, redundancy, verbosity). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

свръхинформация (redundancy), редунтантност (redundancy), многословие (diffusion, padding, prolixity, redundancy, verbalism, verbiage, verbosity, wordiness), претрупаност (flamboyance, fussiness, luxuriance, redundancy), плеоназъм (pleonasm, redundancy), изобилие (abundance, affluence, amplitude, exuberance, fertility, flush, flushness, galore, lashings, liberality, luxuriance, opulence, plenitude, prodigality, productiveness, productivity, profusion, quantities, quantity, raft, redundancy, richness, spate, store, superfluity, teeming), излишък (excess, overage, overbalance, overflow, overmeasure, overplus, overspill, profusion, redundancy, spilth, superabundance, superfluity, surplus, surplusage), излишество (plethora, redundancy, superfluity, surfeit). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

冗余度. (various references)

   

Czech

  

nadstav (redundancy), nadpoèet (redundancy), nadbytek (abundance, affluence, glut, opulence, overplus, plenty, profusion, redundancy, store, superabundance, superfluity, surplus), hojnost (abundance, affluence, ampleness, exuberance, exuberancy, galore, lashings, legion, opulence, plenitude, plenty, profusion, redundancy, riches, superfluity). (various references)

   

Danish

  

redundance, overflødig information. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

redundantie (redundancy). (various references)

   

French

  

redondance (redundancy), surabondance (redundancy). (various references)

   

German

  

Redundanz (redundancy, redundant operation, redundant unit). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

περίσσεια (abundance, overage, rankness, superfluity), πλεονασμόσ (pleonasm, redundancy, superfluity), πλεονασμός (redundancy). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

עו"ף (balance, excess, left over, plus, redundancy, superfluous, surfeit, surplus), 'ו"ש (abundance, affluence, glut, pile, plenitude, profusion, redundancy, repletion, surfeit). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

terjengősség (exuberance, exuberancy, redundancy), többlet (excess, overplus, plus, rasher, redundancy, surplus), szószaporítás (circumlocution, logorrhea, prolixity, redundancy, rigmarole, tautology, verbiage), szóhalmozás (pleonasm, redundancy), pleonazmus (redundancy), nagy gazdagság (redundancy), nagy bőség (redundancy), felesleg (balance in hand, excess, overflow, redundancy, surplus, surplusage), bőbeszédűség (garrulity, garrulousness, redundancy, talkativeness, verbiage). (various references)

   

Italian

  

ridondanza (redundancy). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

edundanceray

   

Portuguese

  

redundância (carry over, redundancy, surplusage). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

redundanţã (redundancy), tautologie (redundancy, tautology), surplus (carry over, excess, gash, overplus, overspill, redundancy, surcharge, surplus), pleonasm (perissology, pleonasm, redundancy), exces (abuse, excess, intemperance, nimiety, redundancy, riot, riotousness, superfluity, surfeit, transgression, violence), excedent (excess, redundancy, superfluity, surplus), abundenţã (abundance, ampleness, array, diffuseness, exuberance, exuberancy, flow, luxuriance, opulence, plenty, profusion, redundancy, riches, richness, rifeness). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

чрезмерность (exorbitance, exorbitancy, extremity, redundancy), многословие (padding, prolixity, redundancy, verbalism, verbiage, verbosity, wordiness), избыток (abundance, excess, exuberance, exuberancy, glut, overabundance, overage, overflow, overplus, overstock, oversupply, redundancy, superabundance, superfluity, surplusage). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

redundancija (redundancy), suvišnost (excessivness, redundancy), otpuštanje (bounce, discharge, dismissal, dismission, lay off, redundancy), izlišnost (otioseness, otiosity, redundancy, superfluity). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

redundancia (redundancy). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

avskedande (redundancy), överflöd (abundance, affluence, cornucopia, exuberance, luxuriance, luxury, opulence, over abundance, plenitude, redundancy, superabundance, superfluity). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yazıdaki tekrar oranı (redundancy), laf kalabalığı (exuberance, exuberancy, flux of words, redundancy, spiel, verbalism, verbiage, verbosity), ihtiyaç fazlası oluş (redundancy), gereksiz çokluk (redundancy), gereğinden fazla olma (redundancy). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

скорочення штатів (redundancy), надмірність (excess, excessiveness, exorbitance, exorbitancy, extreme, nimiety, plethora, profusion, rampancy, redundancy, surfeit), надлишок (excess, glut, nimiety, over, overage, overbalance, overflow, overmeasure, overplus, redundancy, spillover, superfluity, surfeit). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự thừa (nimiety, redundancy). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Redundance

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-d-e-e-n-n-r-u"

-1 letter: endurance.

-2 letters: credenda, unearned.

-3 letters: adducer, daunder, denuder, durance, endured, nuanced, recaned, reduced, unended.

-4 letters: adduce, canned, canner, carded, careen, cedarn, craned, cunner, curded, danced, dancer, dander, darned, deaden, deader, deaned, decade, decane, decare, decern, deduce, denned, denude, deuced, dudeen, duende, duenna, dunned, dunner, durned, earned, educed, endear, endued, endure, ennead, enured, nacred, neared, nuance, recane, redden, reduce, rended, undead, unread.

-5 letters: acned, acred, adder, adunc, arced, cadre, caned, caner, cared, cedar, ceded, ceder, cered, crane, creed, crude, cured, dance, dared, denar, deuce, dread, dreed, dunce, dured, eared, educe, ended, ender, endue, enure, nacre, nance, nuder, raced, rance, ranee, readd, redan, reded, udder, undee, under.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-d-d-e-e-n-n-r-u"
 

+2 letters: redundancies.

 

+3 letters: counterdemand, countermanded, underfinanced.

 

+4 letters: counterdemands, uncredentialed.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Redundance


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 65 64 75 6E 64 61 6E 63 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-.    .    -..    ..-    -.    -..    .-    -.    -.-.    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01100101 01100100 01110101 01101110 01100100 01100001 01101110 01100011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#101 &#100 &#117 &#110 &#100 &#97 &#110 &#99 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0065 0064 0075 006E 0064 0061 006E 0063 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

52717087807067806971

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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