Consensus usually refers to general agreement among a group of people or community. It may also refer to:

Sociology

Consensus decision-making Consensus decision-making or consensus process (often abbreviated to ''consensus'') are group decision-making processes in which participants develop and decide on proposals with the aim, or requirement, of acceptance by all. The focus on e ...

, the process of making decisions using consensus. **

Rough consensus Rough consensus is a term used in consensus decision-making to indicate the "sense of the group" concerning a particular matter under consideration. It has been defined as the "dominant view" of a group as determined by its chairperson. The term ...

, a term used in consensus decision-making to indicate the "sense of the group" concerning a matter under consideration. **

Consensus democracy Consensus democracy, consensus politics or consensualism is the application of consensus decision-making to the process of legislation in a democracy. It is characterized by a decision-making structure that involves and takes into account as b ...

, democracy where consensus decision-making is used to create, amend or repeal legislation. *

Consensus-based assessment Consensus-based assessment expands on the common practice of consensus decision-making and the theoretical observation that expertise can be closely approximated by large numbers of novices or journeymen. It creates a method for determining measure ...

, the use of consensus to produce methods of evaluating information.

Religion

Ijma ''Ijmāʿ'' ( ar, إجماع , " consensus") is an Arabic term referring to the consensus or agreement of the Islamic community on a point of Islamic law. Sunni Muslims regard ''ijmā as one of the secondary sources of Sharia law, after the Qur ...

', consensus or agreement of Muslim scholars/jurists, basically on religious issues.

Philosophy

Consensus reality Consensus reality is that which is generally agreed to be reality, based on a consensus view. The appeal to consensus arises from the idea that humans do not fully understand or agree upon the nature of knowledge or ontology, often making it unce ...

, reality as defined by consensus, particularly popular consensus, rather than or before other (philosophical) criteria. *

Consensus theory of truth A consensus theory of truth is the process of taking statements to be true simply because people generally agree upon them. Varieties of consensus Consensus gentium An ancient criterion of truth, the ''consensus gentium'' (Latin for ''agreement of ...

, truth as determined by consensus rather than or before other criteria.

Psychology

* False-consensus effect, a tendency to overestimate the extent to which beliefs or opinions match those of others.

Science and technology

Scientific consensus Scientific consensus is the generally held judgment, position, and opinion of the majority or the supermajority of scientists in a particular field of study at any particular time. Consensus is achieved through scholarly communication at co ...

Consensus (computer science) A fundamental problem in distributed computing and multi-agent systems is to achieve overall system reliability in the presence of a number of faulty processes. This often requires coordinating processes to reach consensus, or agree on some data va ...

, techniques to provide coherence among and between nodes of a distributed computer system or database. *

Consensus sequence In molecular biology and bioinformatics, the consensus sequence (or canonical sequence) is the calculated order of most frequent residues, either nucleotide or amino acid, found at each position in a sequence alignment. It serves as a simplified r ...

, the order of nucleotide or amino acid residues most frequently found within a DNA, RNA or protein sequence. *

Consensus theorem In Boolean algebra, the consensus theorem or rule of consensus is the identity: :xy \vee \barz \vee yz = xy \vee \barz The consensus or resolvent of the terms xy and \barz is yz. It is the conjunction of all the unique literals of the terms, ...

, an identity in Boolean algebra. ** Consensus or resolvent term, defined in the

consensus theorem In Boolean algebra, the consensus theorem or rule of consensus is the identity: :xy \vee \barz \vee yz = xy \vee \barz The consensus or resolvent of the terms xy and \barz is yz. It is the conjunction of all the unique literals of the terms, ...

Professional

, the collective opinion, judgment and position of scientists as regards matters of fact, especially with reference to a particular scientific or science-related issue. *

Medical consensus Medical consensus is a public statement on a particular aspect of medical knowledge at the time the statement is made that a representative group of experts agree to be evidence-based and state-of-the-art (state-of-the-science) knowledge. Its main o ...

, a public statement of what is taken to be the consensus among medical experts as regards an aspect or aspects of medical knowledge.

Political

1992 Consensus The 1992 Consensus is a political term referring to the alleged outcome of a meeting in 1992 between the semiofficial representatives of the People's Republic of China (PRC) of mainland China and the Republic of China (ROC) of Taiwan. They are of ...

, used to refer to the outcome of a meeting held in 1992 between semi-official representatives of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC).

Policy

Copenhagen Consensus Copenhagen Consensus is a project that seeks to establish priorities for advancing global welfare using methodologies based on the theory of welfare economics, using cost–benefit analysis. It was conceived and organized around 2004 by Bjørn L ...

, a think tank-like project that uses welfare economics and cost–benefit analysis to recommend priorities and investment in global welfare. *

Monterrey Consensus The Monterrey Consensus was the outcome of the 2002 Monterrey Conference, the United Nations International Conference on Financing for Development. in Monterrey, Mexico. It was adopted by Heads of State and Government on 22 March 2002. Over fifty ...

, the outcome of the United Nations International Conference on Financing for Development held in Monterrey, Mexico, in 2002. *

Washington Consensus The Washington Consensus is a set of ten economic policy prescriptions considered to constitute the "standard" reform package promoted for crisis-wracked developing countries by Washington, D.C.-based institutions such as the International Mon ...

, an informal name for a set of economic policies commonly prescribed by institutions based in Washington D.C. such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank.