Plurality

plurality pl: -ties : an amount or group (as of votes) that is greater than any other amount or group within a total but that is not more than half ;esp : a group of justices on an appeals court who do not form a majority but with whose opinion enough other justices concur to render it the decision of the court see also plurality opinion at opinion compare majority ...

Plurality

The state of being plural or consisting of more than one a number consisting of two or more of the same kind as a plurality of worlds the plurality of a verb...

plurality opinion

plurality opinion see opinion ...

Plurality

Plurality, majority; in greater number than one. The holding of more than one ecclesiastical benefice is very much restricted.The (English) Pluralities Act, 1838 (repealing the former statute against pluralities, 21 Hen. 8, c. 13), as amended by the (English) Pluralities Measure, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, No. 7), provides that two benefices may be held together, by dispensation of the archbishop on the recommendation of the bishop, if the churches be within four miles of each other, and if the annual value of one does not exceed 400l....

Pluralism

The quality or state of being plural or in the plural number...

Religious pluralism

Religious pluralism, having emphasis on inclusi-vism in religious education instead of allowing exclusivism can be demonstrated by giving in-stances, Aruna Roy v. Union of India, (2002) 7 SCC 368....

Plurally

In a plural manner or sense...

Pluralization

The act of pluralizing...

Plural

Relating to or containing more than one designating two or more as a plural word...

Slime

Slime, is the term used in milling practice to describe a suspension, in water of the fully divided fraction of pulverized ore; also solid, whether suspended or after setting out to drying, Handbook of Mineral Dressing (at p. 1504); see also National Mineral Development Corpn. Ltd. v. State of Madhya Pradesh, (2004) 6 SCC 281.Means a material of extremely fine-particle size encountered in ore treatment (ASG Gloss), National Mineral Development Corpn. Ltd. v. State of Madhya Pradesh, (2004) 6 SCC 281.Means a mudlike substance formed of ore in an almost impalpable powder, mixed with water: usually plural (Standard 1964) National Mineral Development Corpn. Ltd. v. State of Madhya Pradesh, (2004) 6 SCC 281.Means a product of wet grinding containing valuable ore in particles so fine, as to be carried in suspension by water; chiefly used in the plural (Webster 3d); see also National Mineral Development Corpn. Ltd. v. State of Madhya Pradesh, (2004) 6 SCC 281.Means in metallurgy, ore reduced ...

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