majority vs polling

majority

noun
  • The difference between the winning vote and the rest of the votes. 

  • Ancestors; ancestry. 

  • More than half (50%) of some group. 

  • The office held by a member of the armed forces in the rank of major. 

polling

noun
  • the process of voting in an election. 

  • The action of taking a poll. 

  • A technique that continually interrogates a peripheral or service to see if it has data to transfer. 

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