(electronics) a system design that duplicates components to provide alternatives in case one component fails

Usage examples of redundancy.

What arrays of optical or magnetic disks might provide reliability and redundancy for more than a few years of storage?

Saddam plays these different groups off against one another in his usual efforts to build redundancy and divide and conquer.

The redundancy, overlapping responsibilities, wide-ranging writs, and fierce rivalries among the security services make it hard to conceal a coup for long, which is why the vast majority have failed.

In addition, the United States could bolster Israeli defenses with the latest version of the Patriot surface-to-air missile, which, though less capable than the Arrow, would add some redundancy to Israeli defenses.

Go critically over what you write and strike out every word, phrase and clause the omission of which impairs neither the clearness nor force of the sentence and so avoid redundancy, tautology and circumlocution.

There, the dance of the children was a redundancy strategy letting language be purified of excess.

They had no redundancy in the drive system, and the mission regulations forbid the crew from taking a SPEMU any farther from the habitat than the astronaut could walk back in case of a failure.

A second bolt was fixed for redundancy, and then a separate safety line was set with a third and fourth anchor.

It is embedded not just once, but many times, with elaborate redundancy, at each of these several hundred sites.

A gravitonic brain with only a few hundred levels of redundancy is likely to have a Law-level programming failure sooner than that.

It was not dangerousthe environmental control systems had as many built-in redundancies as the Space Shuttlejust a nuisance.

Speculation about redundancies and cuts was rife and the town had a jittery air, which had inevitably infected the radio station.

The use of seven satellites was also a matter of redundancy, since signal transmission and retransmission was automatic.

Piloting redundancy is a Cislunar Republic requirement, which can be met by the AI.

While substantial redundancy in brain function is inevitable, the strong equipotent hypothesis is almost certainly wrong, and most contemporary neurophysiologists have rejected it.