redundant number

Math.: One in which the sum of all its divisors, except itself, exceeds the number. rě-dun-dant-lý, adv . [Eng. redundant; -ly.] In a redundant manner or degree; in superabundance; superfluously; to exce . "Yet more than these to meditation's eyes, Great Nature's self redundantly supplies." Mason: Fresnoy; Art of Painting. re-du-pli-cāte, v. t . & i. [REDUPLICATE, a.] A. Transitive : 1. Ord. Lang .: To double again; to multiply, to repeat. 2. Philol.: To repeat, as the initial syllable or the root of a word for the purpose of marking past time. [REDUPLICATION, II. 1.] IMG:content-0336.png:[blocks in formation] II. Technically: 1. Philology: (1) The repetition of the first syllable (more or le modified), or of the root of a word, as for the purpose of marking past time; as in Gr. typtō =I strike, tetypha =1 struck; Lat. pello I drive, pep uli I drove; Eng. do, did. (2) The new syllable formed by reduplication. 2. Rhet .: A figure in which a verse ends with the same word with which the following one begins. re-du-pli-ca-tive, a . [Fr. réduplicatif ; Sp. & Ital. reduplicativo .] 1. Reduplicated, double; formed by reduplication. "The earliest extant forms are not reduplicative ." Earle: Philology , § 286. 2. Bot. (of æstivation): Doubled back; having the edges valvate and doubled back.