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  2. Redundancy - Wikipedia

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    Redundancy (information theory), the number of bits used to transmit a message minus the number of bits of actual information in the message; Redundancy in total quality management, quality which exceeds the required quality level, creating unnecessarily high costs; The same task executed by several different methods in a user interface

  3. Redundancy (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    For example, the English phonemes /p/ and /b/ in the words pin and bin feature different voicing, aspiration, and muscular tension. Any one of these features is sufficient to differentiate /p/ from /b/ in English. [2] Generative grammar uses such redundancy to simplify the form of grammatical description. Any feature that can be predicted on ...

  4. Redundancy (engineering) - Wikipedia

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    Geographic redundancy corrects the vulnerabilities of redundant devices deployed by geographically separating backup devices. Geographic redundancy reduces the likelihood of events such as power outages, floods, HVAC failures, lightning strikes, tornadoes, building fires, wildfires, and mass shootings disabling most of the system if not the entirety of it.

  5. Pleonasm - Wikipedia

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    For example, most English speakers would agree that "tuna fish" is redundant because tuna is a kind of fish. However, given the knowledge that "tuna" can also refer to a kind of edible prickly pear, [ 19 ] the "fish" in "tuna fish" can be seen as non-pleonastic, but rather a disambiguator between the fish and the prickly pear.

  6. Termination of employment - Wikipedia

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    A less severe form of involuntary termination is often referred to as a layoff (also redundancy or being made redundant in British English). A layoff is usually not strictly related to personal performance but instead due to economic cycles or the company's need to restructure itself, the firm itself going out of business, or a change in the function of the employer (for example, a certain ...

  7. Layoff - Wikipedia

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    "Redundancy" is a specific legal term in UK labour law with a definition in section 139 of the Employment Rights Act 1996: [19] see Redundancy in United Kingdom law. When an employer is faced with work of a particular type ceasing or diminishing at a particular location, [20] it may be perceived [by whom?] as obfuscation.

  8. Redundancy (information theory) - Wikipedia

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    Redundancy of compressed data refers to the difference between the expected compressed data length of messages () (or expected data rate () /) and the entropy (or entropy rate ). (Here we assume the data is ergodic and stationary , e.g., a memoryless source.)

  9. Data redundancy - Wikipedia

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    English. Read; Edit; View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar ... data redundancy is the existence of data that is additional to the actual data and permits ...