0 an organization of several businesses or banks joining together as a group for a shared purpose: --
a consortium of textile manufacturers
1 a group of companies or people with the same goal who are working together to achieve that goal --
2 a group of companies, organizations, etc. that have joined together to work on a particular project: --
Early efforts described development of unrestricted monospecies consortia, often considering diffusion and reaction of a single solute species.
Considerable research had been carried out during the 1930s by a consortium formed in 1928.
The process also contributed to the formation of a consortium among the participating organizations.
As with most natural bacterial populations, soil consortia are attached to surfaces where they grow as highly structured communities in biofilms.
The consortia living in the microbial mats would have included heterotrophic as well as chemolithotrophic organisms.
The consortium is similar to the steering committee of a business, making strategic decisions (often technical) regarding the development of the project.
The consortium adhered to tradition : political rights remained attached to nobility, regardless of origin.
Individual bacterial cells have limited access to the nutrient supply and limited space for growth inside the large cell consortia.
