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quorum::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | assemblage, gathering |
| Has types | minyan |
Examples of quorum
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Their absence left the chamber one member short of the quorum needed for a vote.
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A vote for chairman requires a two-thirds quorum of executive committee members.
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If the quorum requirement is not met, it is canceled and another Meeting called.
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Without a quorum, it could not convene, so Yuan disbanded it on 10 January 1914.
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P. aeruginosa communicate with each other via a process known as quorum sensing.
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The national assembly often fails to get the 25% attendance needed for a quorum.
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It is in these rare but powerful instances when the site becomes a true quorum.
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A previous meeting of that group was cancelled when they did not make a quorum.
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When parliament is in session, it struggles to find a quorum for deliberations.
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- A gathering of the minimal number of members of an organization to conduct business
- A quorum is the minimum number of members of a deliberative assembly (a body that uses parliamentary procedure, such as a legislature) necessary to conduct the business of that group. ...
- A quorum is 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. A quorum-based technique is implemented to enforce consistent operation in a distributed system.
- In the Latter Day Saint movement, a quorum is a group of people ordained or endowed with priesthood authority, and organized to act together as a body. The idea of a quorum was established by Joseph Smith, Jr. ...
- The Quorum coffee house created a successful model for multicultural exchange in the politically and racially charged atmosphere of the 1960s. It became a frequent target of segregationist harassment in New Orleans after it opened to persons from all racial backgrounds in 1963. ...
- 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; A selected body of persons
- The minimum number of members required for the conduct of business. Kavi Groups includes features for tracking meeting attendance which can automatically compute whether quorum was met at a group's meeting.
- The minimum number of delegates needed to be present for a committee to meet. In the General Assembly, a quorum consists of one third of the members to begin debate, and a majority of members to pass a resolution. ...
- A majority. The State Constitution requires a majority of the members elected to a house to be present for the transacting of legislative business.
