quorum: [15] Quorum began life as the genitive plural of the Latin pronoun quī ‘who’. This appeared in former times in the Latin text of commissions issued to persons who because of some special expertise were required to act as justices of the peace in a particular case (if two JPs were required, for instance, the wording would be quorum vos … duos esse volumnus ‘of whom we wish that you … be two’). In due course the word came to be used as a noun, denoting the ‘number of justices who must be present in order to try the case’, and in the 17th century this was generalized to ‘minimum number of members necessary for a valid meeting’.
quorum (n.)
early 15c., in reference to certain eminent justices of the peace, from Latin quorum "of whom," genitive plural (masc. and neuter; fem. quarum) of qui "who" (see who). The traditional wording of the commission appointing justices of the peace translates as, "We have also assigned you, and every two or more of you (of whom [quoram vos] any one of you the aforesaid A, B, C, D, etc. we will shall be one) our justices to inquire the truth more fully." The justices so-named usually were called the justices of the quorum. Meaning "fixed number of members whose presence is necessary to transact business" is first recorded 1610s.
双语例句
1. Failed the load string for locating existing quorum resource.
未能查找已有的仲裁资源时加载字符串.
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2. One - half of the members of the Executive Committee shall constitute a quorum.
(b)执行委员会委员的半数构成开会的法定人数.
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3. The cluster quorum resource is not allowed to have any dependencies.
该群集仲裁资源不允许有任何依存关系.
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4. Quorum resource is not joinable. A multi - node cluster can not be created.
无法加入仲裁资源. 无法创建多节点群集.
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5. Objective : To understand the effects of quorum sensing system on P.