2016年5月12日 星期四

redundant (1928)







用 在組織上的 "冗餘人員",1928年初用:redundant (1928)

Next year Volvo will do something no other company has tried: it will put 100 fully self-driving cars in the hands of customers. Regular folks in Gothenberg, Sweden and in London will test the systems for the automaker.

The cars will have two independent motors to be sure that at least one of…
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redundant 

Pronunciation: /rɪˈdʌnd(ə)nt/ 

ADJECTIVE

1Not or no longer needed or usefulsuperfluous:an appropriate use for a redundant churchmany of the old skills had become redundant
1.1British No longer in employment because there is no more work available:1928eight permanent staff were made redundant
1.2Engineering (Of a component) not strictly necessary to functioning but included in case of failure in another component:the modules are linked using a redundant fibre-optic cable

Derivatives

redundantly

ADVERB

Origin

Late 16th century (in the sense 'abundant'): from Latin redundant- 'surging up', from the verb redundare (see redound).

redundancy 

Pronunciation: /rɪˈdʌnd(ə)nsi/ 

NOUN (plural redundancies)

[MASS NOUN]
1The state of being not or no longer needed or useful:the redundancy of 19th-century heavy plant machinery
1.1British The state of being no longer in employment because there is no more work available:the factory’s workers face redundancy[COUNT NOUN]: the car giant is expected to announce around 5,000 redundancies
1.2Engineering The inclusion of extra components which are not strictly necessary to functioning, in case of failure in other components:a high degree of redundancy is built into the machinery installation

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