Redundancy vs Ambiguity - What's the difference?
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The state of being redundant; a superfluity; something redundant or excessive; a needless repetition in language; excessive wordiness.
Duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components.
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Duplication of parts of a message to guard against transmission errors.
The state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary; the dismissal of such an employee; a layoff.
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* 1983 , UK House of Commons, Papers by Command , Volume 40,
* 2003 , K. Brendow, Restructuring Estonia?s Oil Shale Industry: What Lessons from the Restructuring the Coal Industries in Central and Eastern Europe?'', '' ,
(label) surplusage inserted in a pleading which may be rejected by the court without impairing the validity of what remains.
(countable) Something, particulary words and sentences, that is open to more than one interpretation, explanation or meaning, if that meaning etc cannot be determined from its context.
(uncountable) The state of being ambiguous.
As nouns the difference between redundancy and ambiguity
is that redundancy is the state of being redundant; a superfluity; something redundant or excessive; a needless repetition in language; excessive wordiness while ambiguity is something, particulary words and sentences, that is open to more than one interpretation, explanation or meaning, if that meaning etc cannot be determined from its context.redundancy
English
(wikipedia redundancy)Noun
(redundancies)page 108,
- Staff redundancy is needed in the event that a supervisor and key unit supervisors are not present or unable to act in an emergency.
page 4212,
- Has he received any representation from Air New Zealand management about redundancy' proposals for Air New Zealand staff; and, if so, do these proposals include ' redundancy agreements?
page lvi,
- The potential savings did not take into account once-and-for-all staff redundancy costs of £16.5 million and unspecified costs involved in increasing stock levels.
page 307,
- In Estonia, in addition, the ethnical aspects of staff redundancy programmes have to be taken into account.
Synonyms
* (state of being redundant) redundance (rare), pro-chrono continuum (rare), superfluity, superfluousness * (thing that is redundant) dead wood, superfluity * (duplication in case of transmission error) * (state of being unemployed) retirement * (instance or act of dismissal) sackingAntonyms
* (state of being redundant) non-redundancy * (state of being unemployed) employment * (instance or act of dismissal) hiringambiguity
English
(wikipedia ambiguity)Noun
- His speech was made with such great ambiguity that neither supporter nor opponent could be certain of his true position.