Plurality may refer to:
Law and politics
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Plurality decision
A plurality decision is a court decision in which no opinion received the support of a majority of the judges.
A plurality opinion is the judicial opinion or opinions which received the most support among those opinions which supported the plur ...
, in a decision by a multi-member court, an opinion held by more judges than any other but not by an overall majority
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Plurality (voting)
A plurality vote (in North American English) or relative majority (in British English) describes the circumstance when a party, candidate, or proposition polls more votes than any other but does not receive more than half of all votes cast.
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, when a candidate or proposition polls more votes than any other but does not receive more than half of all votes cast
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Plurality voting
Plurality voting refers to electoral systems in which the candidates in an electoral district who poll more than any other (that is, receive a plurality) are elected.
Under single-winner plurality voting, and in systems based on single-member ...
, a system in which each voter votes for one candidate and the candidate with a plurality is elected
Philosophy and religion
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Plurality (church governance)
Ecclesiastical polity is the government of a church. There are local (congregational) forms of organization as well as denominational. A church's polity may describe its ministerial offices or an authority structure between churches. Polit ...
, a type of Christian church polity in which decisions are made by a committee
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Plurality of benefices, the holding of two different benefices simultaneously
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Plurality of gods, an understanding of God in Mormonism
* Plurality, one of the "twelve pure concepts of the understanding" proposed by Kant in his ''
Critique of Pure Reason
The ''Critique of Pure Reason'' (; 1781; second edition 1787) is a book by the German philosopher Immanuel Kant, in which the author seeks to determine the limits and scope of metaphysics. Also referred to as Kant's "First Critique", it was foll ...
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Ontological pluralism
Other uses
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Plurality (company), an Israeli semiconductor company
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''Plurality'' (film), a 2021 Taiwanese psychological thriller film
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Grammatical number
In linguistics, grammatical number is a Feature (linguistics), feature of nouns, pronouns, adjectives and verb agreement (linguistics), agreement that expresses count distinctions (such as "one", "two" or "three or more"). English and many other ...
, which is sometimes referred to as plurality.
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Multiplicity (subculture), an online subculture of people identifying as having or using multiple personalities, or as having multiple people occupying one mind and body.
See also
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Multiplicity (disambiguation)
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Plurality of worlds (disambiguation)
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Pluralism (disambiguation)
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Plural
In many languages, a plural (sometimes list of glossing abbreviations, abbreviated as pl., pl, , or ), is one of the values of the grammatical number, grammatical category of number. The plural of a noun typically denotes a quantity greater than ...
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