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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
consensus
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
reach agreement/consensus (=agree about something)
▪ The experts seem unable to reach consensus on this point.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
apparent
▪ The Government's commitment to a positive reform of the law will weaken in view of the apparent lack of consensus.
▪ But this shift was also brought about by an apparent consensus about education in the country as a whole.
▪ However, despite the apparent consensus, there were notable differences in style, presentation and treatment where these values were concerned.
▪ There is no apparent consensus about their optimum position within the organisation.
bipartisan
▪ Clinton, who will officially address the governors Tuesday, said he hoped to reach bipartisan consensus, particularly on Medicaid.
▪ He previewed the coming Congress, hoping for bipartisan consensus in trade, taxes, defense.
broad
▪ There is therefore the broadest possible political consensus behind the pressures to enforce such a duty to disarm.
▪ I now believe that we needed to build a broader consensus on this important issue before moving forward.
clear
▪ The problem is compounded by the lack of clear consensus about the purpose or even the nature of education.
▪ As for its strictly supernatural origins, there is no clear consensus on that either.
▪ Although no clear consensus has emerged from these discussions, one idea in particular has acquired a sizeable following.
▪ There is no clear consensus about how fast or slowly dinosaurs moved.
general
▪ The general consensus is that few horses should be inconvenienced by the ground.
▪ The general consensus is the show was a complete snooze, a letdown that garnered huge ratings and little else.
▪ Most decisions are reached by general consensus with a minimum of formal voting. 7.
▪ I think there is general consensus to change the welfare system; and that abuses should not be tolerated.
▪ There is a general consensus that psychological processes are a function of the whole brain, not of its constituent parts.
▪ In recent years, however, a general consensus has been reached that movies and television must have some influence on behavior.
▪ But the odds being quoted reflect the general consensus that it is a three-horse race between Donegal, Derry and Down.
▪ The general consensus is that worker influence on these boards has been limited.
growing
▪ After Kingman there was a growing consensus that some kind of explicit knowledge about language was necessary for both teachers and pupils.
international
▪ The international consensus seems to be that any return will be only to the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
▪ Its co-operation has been crucial to the international consensus legitimising the war.
little
▪ Regarding the desirable extent of redistribution, there is little consensus.
▪ There is little consensus among candidates and voters on what the term means.
▪ There is, however, little consensus about the direction of these biases.
▪ Prumm also provides ample evidence for saying that there is little consensus concerning the nature or existence of Orphism.
moral
▪ Breakdown of the moral consensus and social cohesion is rife.
national
▪ Thus the Republic emerged from its early traumas with a fragmented political culture and no national consensus.
▪ By the early 1970s, the national welfare consensus that had prevailed since World War Il was under attack.
▪ Labour needs serious proof of a national consensus.
▪ Fundamental and irreversible changes ought only to be imposed, if at all, in the light of an unmistakable national consensus.
▪ The bombing spawned a rare moment of national consensus and healing.
▪ By the beginning of 1946 the national consensus that he had presided over at the liberation was visibly disintegrating.
▪ She is demanding a government of national consensus, leading to an election run by an independent election commission.
new
▪ Even though the demonstrations were unable to stop the war, they laid the foundation for a new consensus.
▪ The outlines of a new post-Thatcherite consensus begin to be visible.
▪ There is a new consensus that purely physical developments based on property-led solutions are not enough.
▪ Only better public transport, according to the new consensus, can save the city centres from the threat of gridlock.
▪ A new political consensus had emerged, with the promise of a social revolution.
▪ For all the talk about a new consensus and a new realism, however, a number of issues remain open.
political
▪ Be that as it may, there now exists a political consensus in favour of the complete monetary integration of the Community.
▪ Political campaigns were financed by such groups, and political consensus was brokered between such organizations.
▪ There was no political consensus about broadcasting.
▪ There seemed to be no clear path to success, and there was no political consensus about what to do.
▪ But almost every deviation from the pro-corporate political consensus has been stamped out.
▪ There is therefore the broadest possible political consensus behind the pressures to enforce such a duty to disarm.
▪ A decade after unification it became clear that no political consensus had emerged about the state and society.
▪ The great change after 1945 has been the establishment of a political consensus.
scientific
▪ Despite the overwhelming scientific consensus supporting the existence of global warming, the media often portray it as a controversial scientific debate.
▪ Yet if the current scientific consensus is correct, it has to be, and that may be its saving grace.
▪ In the first place, it's uncommon to discover such overwhelming scientific consensus on such a controversial set of issues.
▪ I hope that this book provides others with insights, thereby enabling a scientific consensus to emerge.
social
▪ Some scholars define crime as deviance from a social consensus of permitted behaviour.
▪ Politicians were not prepared to risk the fragile social consensus by allowing troubled firms to go to the wall.
strong
▪ A strong consensus among brokers may now signify risk, not safety.
▪ This discussion concentrates on implications based on strong consensus emerging from our small sample.
■ NOUN
estimate
▪ A First Call consensus estimate based on a survey of four analysts was 42 cents for the Columbus, Ohio, company.
▪ First Call listed a consensus estimate of 39 cents for the single-family home builder.
▪ The consensus estimate is $ 1. 25 a share.
▪ The results exactly met analysts' consensus estimate, according to First Call.
politics
▪ The consensus politics of the post-1945 period in which so many of our demands were rooted is no more.
▪ The erosion of consensus politics overtook local government as it did many other areas of public life.
▪ It was the most important disavowal consensus politics in recent history.
▪ The practice of consensus politics has meant no determined action against inequalities by any Labour government.
sequence
▪ All three of these start positions agree well with Kozak's consensus sequence.
view
▪ Contrary to the Minister's partisan approach, I want to begin by taking a consensus view.
▪ The consensus view seems to be that he probably did not.
▪ There is unlikely to be a consensus view amongst the parents or even in the staff room about standards in these matters.
▪ Until the major reinterpretation by E.P. Thompson in 1963, a consensus view of Luddism prevailed among historians.
▪ Unfortunately a consensus view has yet to emerge on this question.
▪ In time the consensus view is seen to have emerged.
■ VERB
achieve
▪ In the long term, we want to see a united Ireland achieved by consensus and without violence.
▪ Once again, they underestimated the amount of time required for achieving consensus.
▪ Johnson would often move in contradictory directions, yet he would usually achieve consensus.
▪ In fact, very little about chronic fatigue syndrome has achieved medical consensus, not even the name.
▪ Then you achieve consensus that the illegal traffic in marijuana, cocaine and heroin, principally, creates its own trillion-dollar economy.
agree
▪ It must be the case that the norms of these variable states are agreed on by internal consensus in the communities concerned.
based
▪ This discussion concentrates on implications based on strong consensus emerging from our small sample.
▪ Our country is based on consensus.
▪ Mr Chirac explained that by tradition defence bills are based on a cross-party consensus.
▪ Many people believe that organisations should become non-hierarchical and be based on group and consensus decision-making.
build
▪ This, in turn, requires more significant technical and conceptual changes, which take more planning time in order to build consensus.
▪ Porras found an astute ally in newly elected President Alvaro Arzu, a pragmatic businessman with an instinct for building consensus.
▪ By temperament Mr Putin always seeks to build consensus.
▪ I now believe that we needed to build a broader consensus on this important issue before moving forward.
▪ Labour has failed to build a popular consensus around educational reform and was trumped by Ashdown's penny on income tax.
▪ This gives the organization time to absorb the idea, to build consensus and to reduce resistance.
grow
▪ But there is a growing consensus that there is no quick, painless or cheap way out of the morass.
reach
▪ At least five local law societies found it difficult to reach a consensus amongst their members on the matter.
▪ After discussing several alternatives, the team reaches consensus on a plan of action.
▪ Most decisions are reached by general consensus with a minimum of formal voting. 7.
▪ Various group decision-making methods can be used to reach consensus.
▪ Our impressions are of a team in which decisions are reached by consensus and with the minimum of tension.
▪ These decisions would thus come within the competence of the Council of Ministers, to be reached by consensus.
▪ The group itself must get together and reach such decisions by consensus.
reflect
▪ But the odds being quoted reflect the general consensus that it is a three-horse race between Donegal, Derry and Down.
▪ But it reflects the astronomical consensus of what probably did happen.
seek
▪ By temperament Mr Putin always seeks to build consensus.
▪ Ministers were right to seek a consensus, but have dallied too long already.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Events in Eastern Europe shifted popular consensus against a new generation of nuclear weapons.
▪ The consensus of opinion seems to be that the Prime Minister should resign.
▪ The delegates will continue to meet until a consensus is reached.
▪ There appears to be a consensus of opinion that the pilot was not at fault.
▪ There is still no general consensus on what our future policy should be.
▪ There was a growing consensus that the Prime Minister should resign.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Analysts surveyed by First Call / Thomson Financial had forecast a consensus 59 cents per share.
▪ At the local level it was expressed by a shared set of values and policies, operating within a welfare state consensus.
▪ I am convinced, having talked to the groups, that a consensus could have been reached.
▪ Like other scientists, obesity researchers are supposed to work by a process of consensus.
▪ Most decisions are reached by general consensus with a minimum of formal voting. 7.
▪ The consensus politics of the post-1945 period in which so many of our demands were rooted is no more.
▪ The consensus was to discontinue the march against General Paredes in Guadalajara and to attack the capital immediately.
▪ They all have the reputation of being consensus politicians.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Consensus

Consensus \Con*sen"sus\, n. [L. See Consent.] Agreement; accord; consent.

That traditional consensus of society which we call public opinion.
--Tylor.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
consensus

1854 as a term in physiology; 1861 of persons; from Latin consensus "agreement, accord," past participle of consentire (see consent). There is an isolated instance of the word from 1633.

Wiktionary
consensus

n. 1 A process of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision%20making%23Decision%20making%20in%20social%20setting that seeks widespread agreement among group members. 2 general#Adjective agreement among the members of a given group or community, each of which exercises some discretion in decision-making and follow-up action. 3 Average projected value, as in the finance term consensus forecast.

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WordNet
consensus

n. agreement in the judgment or opinion reached by a group as a whole; "the lack of consensus reflected differences in theoretical positions"; "those rights and obligations are based on an unstated consensus"

Wikipedia
Consensus (disambiguation)

Consensus usually refers to general agreement among the members of a group or community. It may also refer to:

  • Consensus decision-making, the process of making decisions using consensus.
    • Rough consensus, a term used in consensus decision-making to indicate the "sense of the group" concerning a matter under consideration.
    • Consensus democracy, democracy where consensus decision-making is used to create, amend or repeal legislation.
  • Consensus, techniques to provide coherence among and between nodes of a distributed computer system or database.
  • Consensus reality, reality as defined by consensus, particularly popular consensus, rather than or before other (philosophical) criteria.
  • Consensus sequence, the order of nucleotide or amino acid residues most frequently found within a DNA, RNA or protein sequence.
  • Consensus theorem, an identity in Boolean algebra.
  • Consensus theory of truth, truth as determined by consensus rather than or before other criteria.
  • Consensus-based assessment, the use of consensus to produce methods of evaluating information.
  • Scientific consensus, the collective opinion, judgment and position of scientists as regards matters of fact, especially with reference to a particular scientific or science-related issue.
    • Medical consensus, a public statement of what is taken to be the consensus among medical experts as regards an aspect or aspects of medical knowledge.
  • 1992 Consensus, used to refer to the outcome of a meeting held in 1992 between semi-official representatives of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC).
  • Copenhagen Consensus, a think tank-like project that uses welfare economics and cost–benefit analysis to recommend priorities and investment in global welfare.
  • Monterrey Consensus, the outcome of the United Nations International Conference on Financing for Development held in Monterrey, Mexico, in 2002.
  • Washington Consensus, an informal name for a set of economic policies commonly prescribed by institutions based in Washington D.C. such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank.
  • False-consensus effect, a tendency to overestimate the extent to which beliefs or opinions match those of others.
Consensus (computer science)

A fundamental problem in distributed computing and multi-agent systems is to achieve overall system reliability in the presence of a number of faulty processes. This often requires processes to agree on some data value that is needed during computation. Examples of applications of consensus include whether to commit a transaction to a database, agreeing on the identity of a leader, state machine replication, and atomic broadcasts. The real world applications include clock synchronization, PageRank, opinion formation, power smart grids, state estimation, control of UAVs, load balancing and so on.

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Usage examples of "consensus".

It is a question for the consensus of the most gifted and impartial minds, the very Areopagus of Humanity, to decide.

Linguistically the Apache belong to the great Athapascan family, which, according to the consensus of opinion, had its origin in the far North, where many tribes of the family still live.

But special consensus, by force of being concerned with the actions and elements perceived in non-ordinary reality, entailed a peculiar order of conceptualization, an order that brought such perceived actions and elements into accordance with corroboration of the rule.

However, a half-dozen calls to the capital, Managua, produced a consensus that Ulises Rodriguez was not in Nicaragua, nor had he been there.

Alwyn Stafford-the father of a tantalizing but disappointing new consensus: ancient wet Mars had produced no more than a few stunted microbial forms, starting three, maybe three and a half billion years ago.

The partials combined and evolved in a seething, tangled mass of vigorous conflict, to form a consensus entity, or, rather, successive sets of consensus entities, whose proclamations influenced the course of Neptunian dialogue and society.

His advice on conditioning and injury-prevention tends to be pretty solid, is the consensus.

Samuel chartered a starship to take him to the Dorados, while Tringa found one which would convey him to Jupiter so he could warn the Consensus.

If things continue going well, we should have a consensus within a matter of hours and the Wahhabi leadership will be on its way home.

In the process, they could hold back a number of potential rebellions and create a consensus of popular support for the rule of a new, privileged leadership.

Ford was a third-rate trainer who by general consensus was as honest and trustworthy as a pickpocket at Aintree, and he trained in a hollow in the Downs at a spot where any passing motorist could glance down into his yard.

Today, we have information from key defectors and a consensus among knowledgeable experts that the Iraqis are hard at work on such a program and that they have all the know-how and the technology to do it.

Cato had started out from Cyrenaica, the general consensus had been June, as this date would give Caesar time to deal with King Pharnaces in Anatolia first.

Ephesus, Caesarea, or Rome, but the scholarly consensus leans strongly to the last, particularly because of the verses here cited.

From staid university presidents and scruffy environmentalists alike, a growing consensus holds that humanity has entered a watershed era, a time of vast disasters looming large, just over the horizon of this generation.