Plurality
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.
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.
See Plurality of benefices, below.
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Plurality Quotations
The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.
Irving Babbitt
Thus, the forces and value systems that are most threatened by this shift are becoming the most coherent and are rising to the top as minority or plurality powers. But they do not represent either the shift, the change, or the future.
Paul Hawken
Plurality should not be posited without necessity.
William of Occam
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Plurality Translations
plurality in German is Vielzahl, Mehrheit
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