quorum

Etymology
From, genitive plural form of , used as standard wording in written commissions.

Noun

 * 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.
 * 1)  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.

Usage notes
The plural is sometimes objected to on the grounds that it is not grammatically correct: in Latin quorum is a plural pronoun, not a singular noun.

Translations

 * Arabic: نِصَاب
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: yetərsay
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: kvorumo
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: კვორუმი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: córam
 * Japanese: ,
 * Malay: korum, cukupbilang
 * Persian: حد نصاب
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: kasapatan
 * Thai: องค์ประชุม, องค์คณะ
 * Turkish: ,
 * Yiddish: קוואָרום

Etymology
From.

Etymology
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Etymology
, genitive plural form of.

Noun

 * 1)  minimum number of members required

Etymology
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