Plurality

(noun.) (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).

(noun.) 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'.

杰瑞德校对

• Even the Jews in the interior have a plurality of wives. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• What a plurality of hypotheses does for the scientific investigator, a plurality of stated aims may do for the instructor. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Can there be any greater evil than discord and distraction and plurality where unity ought to reign? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• It means rather consistency of mode of response in reference to the plurality of events which occur. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.

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