переве́с — meaning in English
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English meaning
- majority noun More than half of a group or total.
- preponderance noun A greater amount or number of something; the larger part of a group.
Senses
переве́с is used for these senses in English:
- majority In a parliament or legislature, the difference in seats between the ruling party and the opposition; (UK) in an election, the difference in votes between the winning candidate and the second-place candidate, or between the winning candidate and all of the other candidates combined.
- preponderance Superiority of influence, power, a quality, etc.; an outweighing, predominance, pre-eminence.
majority — full definition
- noun More than half of a group or total.
- noun The legal age at which a person is considered an adult.
preponderance — full definition
- noun A greater amount or number of something; the larger part of a group.
- noun A greater degree of power, influence or importance than anything else involved.
- noun The state of weighing more than something else.
- noun The extra weight at the back of a cannon, behind its pivot points, compared with the front.
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