"quorum" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈkwɔː.ɹəm/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈkwɔːɹəm/ [US] Audio: en-us-quorum.ogg Forms: quorums [plural], quora [plural]
Rhymes: -ɔːɹəm Etymology: From Latin quōrum, genitive plural form of quī (“who, which”), used as standard wording in written commissions. Etymology templates: {{der|en|la|quōrum}} Latin quōrum Head templates: {{en-noun|s|quora}} quorum (plural quorums or quora)
  1. The minimum number of members required for a group to officially conduct business and to cast votes, often but not necessarily a majority or supermajority. Categories (topical): Collectives, People
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  2. A selected body of persons.
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  3. (computing, distributed systems) The minimum number of votes that a distributed transaction has to obtain in order to be allowed to perform an operation in a distributed system. Categories (topical): Computing, People
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: disappearing quorum, inquorate, quorate, quorum-busting, quorum sensing Translations (minimum number present for official business): نِصَاب (niṣāb) (Arabic), քվորում (kʻvorum) (Armenian), yetərsay [singular] (Azerbaijani), кворум (kvorum) [masculine] (Bulgarian), quòrum [masculine] (Catalan), 法定人數 (Chinese Mandarin), 法定人数 (fǎdìng rénshù) (Chinese Mandarin), quorum (Dutch), kvorumo (Esperanto), quorum [masculine] (French), კვორუმი (ḳvorumi) (Georgian), Quorum [neuter] (German), απαρτία (apartía) [feminine] (Greek), מִנְיָן (minyán) [masculine] (Hebrew), kuorum (Indonesian), córam [masculine] (Irish), 定数 (teisū) (alt: ていすう) (Japanese), 定足数 (teisokusū) (alt: ていそくすう) (Japanese), korum (Malay), cukupbilang (Malay), حد نصاب (hadd-e nesâb) (Persian), kworum [neuter] (Polish), quorum [neuter] (Polish), quórum [masculine] (Portuguese), cvorum [neuter] (Romanian), кво́рум (kvórum) [masculine] (Russian), cuórum [masculine] (Spanish), beslutsmässighet [common-gender] (Swedish), kvorum (Swedish), kasapatan (Tagalog), องค์ประชุม (ong-bprà-chum) (Thai), องค์คณะ (ong-ká-ná) (Thai), nisap (Turkish), yeter sayı (Turkish), קוואָרום (kvorum) [masculine] (Yiddish)
Disambiguation of 'minimum number present for official business': 51 1 47

Inflected forms

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}

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  "called_from": "translations/609-20230504",
  "msg": "Translation too long compared to word, so it is skipped",
  "path": [
    "quorum"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "quorum",
  "trace": ""
}

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