quorum

Meaning

1. 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.
2. A selected body of persons.
3. 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.

Synonyms

legal minimum

Translations

quorum

quórum

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απαρτία

Beschlussfähigkeit

quòrum

cuórum

نصاب

nisap

yetersayı

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkwɔː.ɹəm/

Etymology

From Latin quōrum, genitive plural form of quī (“who, which”), used as standard wording in written commissions.