# redundancy

> use of a number of critical components for securing one or more functions of a system with the intention of increasing its reliability, usually in the form of a backup or fail-safe design

**Wikidata**: [Q1204361](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1204361)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redundancy_(engineering))  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/redundancy


## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
2. [OpenAlex](https://docs.openalex.org/download-snapshot/snapshot-data-format)