'Redundant' volgens Oxford Dictionary:
redundant |ri?d?nd?nt|
adjective
no longer needed or useful; superfluous : an appropriate use for a redundant church | many of the old skills had become redundant.
(of words or data) able to be omitted without loss of meaning or function.
Engineering (of a component) not strictly necessary to functioning but included in case of failure in another component.
chiefly Brit. (of a person) no longer employed because there is no more work available : eight permanent staff were made redundant.
DERIVATIVES redundantly adverb
ORIGIN late 16th cent.(in the sense [abundant] ): from Latin redundant- surging up, from the verb redundare (see redound ).
[/list]Vrij vertaald: overbodig, overtollig
(Bewerkt door michelvdb om 23:45, 9-11-2005)