adjective
redux
REE-duks
Redux (adjective) means Brought back or revived — placed after a noun to signal that something has returned in a new version or a new era. Example: “The reboot is basically the 1978 series redux.”
adjective
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Brought back or revived — placed after a noun to signal that something has returned in a new version or a new era.
"The reboot is basically the 1978 series redux."
"Analysts called it the housing crash redux."
noun
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computing A software library for managing application state in JavaScript applications, in which all state is held in a single store and changed only through dispatched actions.
"The team migrated from Redux to a lighter state manager."
"Every action in Redux passes through a reducer."
How to use redux
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishBack again, in a new form.
When to use it
Literary and journalistic; frequent in headlines, book and film titles.
Common pairings
the eighties redux
a scandal redux
Redux store
React and Redux
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Etymology
From Latin redux 'brought back, returning', from reducere 'to lead back'. It entered English as a postpositive adjective and remains almost entirely confined to that position, especially in titles.
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Frequently asked questions
How do you use "redux" in a sentence?
Put it after the noun it modifies, never before: "Watergate redux", not "redux Watergate". It carries a knowing tone, implying the thing has come round again with a twist.
How is redux pronounced?
REE-duks is the usual English pronunciation, with the stress on the first syllable. A second pronunciation, ri-DUKS, is also heard and is not wrong.
What is Redux in programming?
It is a JavaScript state-management library, most associated with React, that keeps an application's state in one immutable store and updates it through pure functions called reducers in response to dispatched actions. The name puns on "reducer", not on the Latin adjective's usual sense.
What is the meaning of redux?
"redux" (adjective) means brought back or revived — placed after a noun to signal that something has returned in a new version or a new era.
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