preferential
adjEtymology
From Medieval Latin preferentia + -al.
- derived from preferentia + -al
Definitions
Of or relating to the showing or giving of preference.
- Club members received preferential seating.
- preferential treatment
Of or relating to a voting system in which the voters are allowed to indicate on their…
Of or relating to a voting system in which the voters are allowed to indicate on their ballots their preference (usually their first and second choices) between two or more candidates, so that if no candidate receives a majority of first choices the one receiving the greatest number of first and second choices together is the winner.
- preferential voting; the preferential system
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at preferential. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at preferential. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at preferential
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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