Quorum Operator

Use the Quorum operator to search for a specified number of terms in no particular order from a list.

Syntax

Semantics

n of {subquery1, subquery2, ...}

Finds all files that match at least n different sub queries. All hits of all sub queries that are in the files will be highlighted.

n is equal to or less than the total number of terms in the list.


Examples

Example of query

Results

2 of {history, english, social studies, french, dutch, german}

  • history, social studies
  • dutch, german
  • history, english, german
  • english, social studies, dutch, german
  • Etc. Always at least 2 or more from the list.

1 of {blue, green, red}

equals

blue OR green OR red

  • blue
  • blue, green
  • blue, green, red
  • Etc. Always at least 1 or more from the list.

3 of {blue, green, red} 

equals

blue AND green AND red

blue, green, red