plurality

[ UK /plɔːɹˈælɪti/ ]
[ US /pɫɝˈæɫɪti/ ]
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
  2. (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)
  3. a large indefinite number
    a plurality of religions
    a multitude of TV antennas
    a battalion of ants
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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.
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