plurality – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
plurality
n.
numerousness, variability; majority of voices in a vote
Plurality
Plurality can refer to:
- Plural, in linguistics
- Plurality opinion, in a decision by a multi-member court, an opinion held by more judges than any other but not by an overall majority
- Plurality (voting), the most votes for any choice in an election, but not necessarily a majority
- Plurality voting system, also called "first past the post"
- Plurality-at-large voting, commonly referred to as block voting or bloc voting
- Plurality (company), Israeli startup
- Plurality (church governance), a type of Christian church polity
- Plurality, ancient Greek pluralist philosophers in ontological pluralism
- Plurality, one of the "twelve pure concepts of the understanding" proposed by Kant in his Critique of Pure Reason
- Plurality (music), the phenomenon that the same tone or chord can function differently in different tonal contexts
- Plurality, the holding of more than one benefice
- Cornering the market, holding a plurality of market share
plurality
Noun
1. the state of being plural; "to mark plurality, one language may add an extra syllable to the word whereas another may simply change the vowel in the existing final syllable"
(hypernym) state
2. a large indefinite number; "a battalion of ants"; "a multitude of TV antennas"; "a plurality of religions"
(synonym) battalion, large number, multitude, pack
(hypernym) large indefinite quantity, large indefinite amount
3. (in an election with more than 2 options) the number of votes for the candidate or party receiving the greatest number (but less that half of the votes)
(synonym) relative majority
(hypernym) relative quantity
(classification) election
Plurality
(n.)
The state of being plural, or consisting of more than one; a number consisting of two or more of the same kind; as, a plurality of worlds; the plurality of a verb.
(n.)
The greater number; a majority; also, the greatest of several numbers; in elections, the excess of the votes given for one candidate over those given for another, or for any other, candidate. When there are more than two candidates, the one who receives the plurality of votes may have less than a majority. See Majority.
(n.)
See Plurality of benefices, below.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
plurality
Synonyms and related words:
a mass of, a world of, army, best part, better part, bevy, body, bulk, bunch, cloud, clutter, covey, essence, flight, flock, flocks, generality, gist, gravamen, hail, hive, host, jam, large amount, legion, lots, main body, major part, majority, many, mass, masses of, meat, mob, more than half, most, muchness, multitude, nest, numbers, pack, preponderance, preponderancy, quantities, quite a few, rout, ruck, scores, shoal, substance, swarm, the greatest number, throng, thrust, tidy sum, worlds of
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Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
