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Superfluous means unnecessary or excessive. It may also refer to: Superfluous precision, the use of calculated measurements beyond significant figures;
So when Swartz in 1788 combined the two as one species in the genus Chloris, the name he used, Chloris radiata, was superfluous, since the correct name already existed, namely Chloris fasciculata. Chloris radiata is an incorrect name for a species in the genus Chloris with the same type as Linnaeus's Andropogon fasciculatus.
"Four different species" are merely "four species", as two non-different species are together one same species. (However, in "a discount if you buy ten different items", "different" has meaning, because if the ten items include two packets of frozen peas of the same weight and brand, those ten items are not all different.)
Tautology is superfluous and simple repetition of the same sense in different words. "The children gathered in a round circle." Antanaclasis is the repetition of a word or phrase to effect a different meaning. "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately." (Benjamin Franklin)
“If we’re only using the same words over and over again—as meaningful as the phrase ‘I love you’ can be—it does begin to feel overdone, and therefore loses some of its meaning.” ...
[1] [2] However, some scholars [3] view this term as superfluous if not outright redundant as there is no real tangible linguistic divide the same way there is between a linguistic isolate and a language family proper.
Onnes possibly observed the superfluid phase transition on August 2 1911, the same day that he observed superconductivity in mercury. [6] It has since been described through phenomenology and microscopic theories. In liquid helium-4, the superfluidity occurs at far higher temperatures than it does in helium-3.
Couture may be an age-old practice, but its exemplars have always pushed technical boundaries, and this collection was no different. “Every look here has been nurtured and tended to like a baby ...