| redundancy [ri`dǝn·dǝn·sē] COMMUNICATIONS In the transmission of information, the fraction of the gross information content of a message which can be eliminated without loss of essential information. COMPUTER SCIENCE Any deliberate duplication or partial duplication of circuitry or information to decrease the probability of a system or communication failure. GENETICS 1. Repetition of a specified deoxyribonucleic acid sequence in a nucleus. 2. Multiplicity of codons for individual amino acids. MATHEMATICS A repetitive statement. MECHANICS A statically indeterminate structure. |