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Redundancy
01
a state of being no longer needed or useful, often due to the existence of a duplicate or replacement
02
repetition of messages to reduce the probability of errors in transmission
03
repetition of an act needlessly
04
(electronics) a system design that duplicates components to provide alternatives in case one component fails
Example
The engineer proposed building in redundancies for system reliability.
A matrix with redundant rows or columns can be reduced by eliminating the redundancies.
The matrix was found to be degenerate, indicating redundancy in the data.
After the merger, the new management decided to downsize several departments to eliminate redundancy and improve profitability.
With data filtering one pays the price of decreasing the effective library redundancy and increasing the number of hybridisations.
