quorum(In a database mirroring session with a witness server, a relationship in which the servers that can currently communicate with each other arbitrate who owns the role of principal server; For a failover cluster, the number of elements that must be online for a given cluster to continue running. The elements relevant in this context are nodes or, in some cases, a witness disk or witness file share)
quorum(Robert's Rules provides that "when the chair has called a meeting to order after finding that a quorum is present, the continued presence of a quorum is ... Wiki. Definition: a minimum number of members in an assembly, society, board of directors, etc, required to be present before any valid business can be transacted. > the quorum is forty, we don't have a quorum. Example Sentences Including 'quorum' Frequency of meetings and quorum 1. The Committee recommends that to begin with the audit committee should meet at least thrice a year. BUSINESS TODAY (1999) It was reported that at times barely forty, the number needed for a quorum , attended. Benjamin Woolley THE HERBALIST: NICHOLAS CULPEPER REBEL PHYSICIAN (2004) Its quorum is larger than is usual, to allow the four opposition parties a place. GLASGOW HERALD (2001) The NRMA's constitution requires five of the 14 directors ' positions to be filled in order to have a quorum. COURIER, SUNDAY MAIL (2002) This year the constituency party failed to raise a quorum for an annual meeting. INDEPENDENT (1999) Yesterday's hearing was adjourned after the IGA was unable to maintain a quorum for a planned afternoon session. THE ADVERTISER, SUNDAY MAIL (2004). Collins Alexander Demidov)
