RAID-1 achieves redundancy by mirroring data on several disks.
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Redundancy
//ɹɪˈdʌnd(ə)nsi//
Synonyms for "redundancy" (147 found)
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Noun(4 words)
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Translations
72 translations across 22 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- կրճատում noun (state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary)
Bulgarian
1 entries- излишък noun (state of being redundant)
Catalan
1 entries- redundància noun (duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 下崗 /下岗 noun (state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary)
- 冗余 noun (state of being redundant)
- 失業 /失业 noun (state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary)
Dutch
4 entries- back-up noun (duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components)
- boventalligheid noun (state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary)
- overtolligheid noun (state of being redundant)
- redundantie noun (state of being redundant)
Esperanto
2 entries- redundo noun (duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components)
- redundo noun (duplication of parts of a message to guard against transmission errors)
Finnish
4 entries- henkilöstövähennys noun (state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary)
- päällekkyys noun (duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components)
- redundanssi noun (state of being redundant)
- redundanssi noun (duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components)
French
4 entries- chômage économique noun (state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary)
- redondance noun (state of being redundant)
- redondance noun (duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components)
- redondance noun (duplication of parts of a message to guard against transmission errors)
German
4 entries- Redundanz noun (state of being redundant)
- Redundanz noun (duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components)
- Redundanz noun (duplication of parts of a message to guard against transmission errors)
- betriebsbedingte Kündigung noun (state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary)
Hungarian
4 entries- elbocsátás noun (state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary)
- fölöslegesség noun (state of being redundant)
- leépítés noun (state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary)
- létszámcsökkentés noun (state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary)
Indonesian
1 entries- redundansi noun (state of being redundant)
Italian
4 entries- copiosità noun (state of being redundant)
- eccessività noun (state of being redundant)
- ridondanza noun (state of being redundant)
- ridondanza noun (duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components)
Japanese
2 entries- 冗長 noun (state of being redundant)
- 冗長性 noun (state of being redundant)
Korean
4 entries- 실업 noun (state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary)
- 용장 noun (duplication of parts of a message to guard against transmission errors)
- 잉여 noun (duplication of parts of a message to guard against transmission errors)
- 중복 noun (duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components)
Māori
1 entries- tāweretanga noun (state of being redundant)
Norwegian
1 entries- redundans noun (state of being redundant)
Portuguese
2 entries- redundância noun (state of being redundant)
- repetição noun (state of being redundant)
Russian
4 entries- избы́точность noun (state of being redundant)
- избы́точность noun (duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components)
- избы́точность noun (duplication of parts of a message to guard against transmission errors)
- чрезме́рность noun (state of being redundant)
Serbo-Croatian
3 entries- redundantnost noun (state of being redundant)
- suvišnost noun (state of being redundant)
- zalihosnost noun (state of being redundant)
Spanish
4 entries- redundancia noun (state of being redundant)
- redundancia noun (duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components)
- redundancia noun (duplication of parts of a message to guard against transmission errors)
- superabundancia noun (state of being redundant)
Swedish
1 entries- redundans noun (state of being redundant)
Turkish
1 entries- artıklık noun (state of being redundant)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
Your database contains lots of redundancy.
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Tom's involuntary redundancy will force him to make some lifestyle changes.
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Tom wasn't eligible for redundancy payment.
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