Redundantly

re·dun·dant  (r-dndnt)

adj.

1. Exceeding what is necessary or natural; superfluous.

2. Needlessly wordy or repetitive in expression: a student paper filled with redundant phrases.

3. Of or relating to linguistic redundancy.

4. Chiefly British Dismissed or laid off from work, as for being no longer needed.

5. Electronics Of or involving redundancy in electronic equipment.

6. Of or involving redundancy in the transmission of messages.

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[Latin redundns, redundant-, present participle of redundre, to overflow : re-, red-, re- + undre, to surge (from unda, wave; see wed-¹ in Indo-European roots).]

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re·dundant·ly adv.