Associations to the word «Quorum»

Wiktionary

QUORUM, noun. 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.
QUORUM, noun. A selected body of persons.
QUORUM SENSING, noun. A proposed method of communication between bacterial cells by the release and sensing of small diffusible signal molecules.

Dictionary definition

QUORUM, noun. A gathering of the minimal number of members of an organization to conduct business.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope