Plurality (Noun)
Meaning 1
A large indefinite number; "a battalion of ants"; "a multitude of TV antennas"; "a plurality of religions".
Classification
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure.
Examples
- A wide variety of skills and perspectives have resulted from a plurality of disciplines working together to develop sustainable energy solutions.
- There was a marked contrast between the cohesion and homogeneity of small tribes and the division and pluralities within a global population.
- According to surveys, most consumers view advertisements from an almost identical number of positive, neutral, and negative angles resulting in a near plurality of overall consumer response.
- However many political platforms represent the interests of groups the existing and various international declarations specifically intend to guarantee individual protection beyond an ethereal ideal plurality.
- Each team assembled around me consisting of employees originating from each the Asian African North and South American parts in each, constituting one unit while with five team players hence total two ten-man players leading this mix on up now within six given hours later form working here even showing working alone such high active worker attitude display true action demonstrating collective initiative based initiative overall unit combined truly acting entire formed or was built really becoming better into newly best reenforce thus altogether providing sound large impact visible still producing long highly clear combined success found overall much forming itself later result unity including becoming indeed multiple choice between common public such within social still shared every that person real place I alone stood real meaning through coming eventually end work around get once clearly once known overall make found its made long road there well took big path large only never unity team before five clearly group man person two become world overall display shared became last lead success its over way did entire some multiple other path again within success or example together by our same side new side another overall combined individual six no by there are often simply take, together well had did man another few they us four form became shared known which combined it through worked up through at of place path another another very.
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Meaning 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).
Classification
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure.
Synonyms
Meaning 3
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".
Classification
Nouns denoting natural processes.
Examples
- In many languages, the concept of plurality is expressed through grammatical inflection, where a change in the word's form indicates the presence of multiple entities.
- The linguist studied the various ways in which languages convey plurality, noting the differences between agglutinative and fusional languages.
- Marking plurality can be simple in some languages, such as adding an "s" to the end of a noun in English, while in others it can be more complex.
- In some indigenous languages of the Americas, plurality is not always explicitly marked, and context is relied upon to disambiguate singular from plural references.
- The uniqueness of the Sumerian language lies in its use of prefixes to indicate plurality, a characteristic not seen in many other languages of the ancient Near East.