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UK
/plɔːɹˈælɪti/
]
[ US /pɫɝˈæɫɪti/ ]
[ US /pɫɝˈæɫɪti/ ]
NOUN
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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 - (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)
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a large indefinite number
a plurality of religions
a multitude of TV antennas
a battalion of ants
How To Use plurality In A Sentence
- this also means that the 9-volt is the only battery in the grocery stores that is actually a *battery*, i.e. a plurality of separate cells working together, rather than a single cell. you can make a lot of friends in the world by saying, "i don't like to be pedantic, but that AA really isn't a battery, you know; just a cell. Making Light: Making light under difficult conditions
- An active bypass circuit for use with a battery pack having a plurality of cells and method of operation thereof.
- In the end, despite these tight controls, the US-backed generals failed to win a majority of the vote, securing a plurality only through frenzied last minute stuffing of the ballot boxes.
- Each of the plurality of flukes may be provided with an inwardly sloped bill segment at a distal end of the fluke.
- However, it is an impersonal god, without name, without history, immanent in the world, diffused within an innumerable plurality of things…
- The apparatus may be linked to a plurality of host systems for equal advantages.
- He defeated the incumbent governor by a large plurality.
- Though by a smaller plurality, Roosevelt managed to carry the Italian-American vote in 1940 as well.
- So let us for once be more cautious, let us be "unphilosophical": let us say that in all willing there is firstly a plurality of sensations, namely, the sensation of the condition "AWAY FROM Beyond Good and Evil
- A plurality of directors control data transfer between the host computer and the bank of disk drives as such data passes through the memory.