Proper noun
Borda (plural Bordas)
A surname.
Borda & Cassini's 1792 measurement of the length of the seconds pendulum * 1737: French mathematician Pierre Bouguer made a sophisticated series of pendulum observations in the Andes mountains, Peru. Source: Internet
Borda was a mariner and a scientist, spending time in the Caribbean testing out advances in chronometers. Source: Internet
Borda explored her interest in the often artistically neglected suburban landscape with a project called Every Bus Stop in Surrey, BC (2005), which inspired her to extend her documentation of the city landscape to farmland. Source: Internet
He disagreed strongly with the alternative method of aggregating preferences put forth by Jean-Charles de Borda (based on summed rankings of alternatives ). Source: Internet
For example, instant-runoff voting and the Borda count do not satisfy the Condorcet criterion. Source: Internet
The de Borda Institute is at http://www.deborda.org * Emerson Peter, Designing an All-Inclusive Democracy (Springer-Verlag, 2007), describes the Modified Borda Count (MBC), as well as the Quota Borda System (QBS) and the matrix vote. Source: Internet