Extra vs Redundant - What's the difference?
extra | redundant | Synonyms |
Beyond what is due, usual, expected, or necessary; extraneous; additional; supernumerary.
(dated) Extraordinarily good; superior.
(informal) To an extraordinary degree.
(cricket) A run scored without the ball having hit the striker's bat - a wide, bye, leg bye or no ball; in Australia referred to as a sundry.
An extra edition of a newspaper, which is printed outside of the normal printing cycle.
A supernumerary or walk-on in a film or play.
Superfluous; exceeding what is necessary.
Repetitive or needlessly wordy.
(chiefly, British) Dismissed from employment because no longer needed; as in "rendered redundant".
Duplicating or able to duplicate the function of another component of a system, providing back-up in the event the other component fails.
* 2013 , Tom Denton, Automobile Electrical and Electronic Systems , page 142:
As adjectives the difference between extra and redundant
is that extra is beyond what is due, usual, expected, or necessary; extraneous; additional; supernumerary while redundant is superfluous; exceeding what is necessary.As an adverb extra
is to an extraordinary degree.As a noun extra
is a run scored without the ball having hit the striker's bat - a wide, bye, leg bye or no ball; in Australia referred to as a sundry.extra
English
Adjective
(-)- extra''' work; '''extra pay
Derived terms
* extranessAdverb
(-)- That day he ran to school extra fast.
Noun
(en noun)- extra''', '''extra , read all about it!
Derived terms
* wuxtryDerived terms
* extra credit English degree adverbs ----redundant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The two lines are mainly used for redundant and therefore fault-tolerant message transmission, but they can also transmit different messages.
