plenum

CEFRC1

/ˈpliːnəm/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A space in a building used for moving air.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A legislative meeting (especially of the Communist Party) in which all members are present.

Examples

  • Air circulated through the ventilation plenum in the ceiling.

  • Air is pumped into the plenum before it enters the room.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
3

Also pronounced

  • /ˈplɛnəm/
  • /ˈplinəm/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A state of fullness, a great quantity (of something).

  2. A space that is completely filled with matter.

  3. An enclosed space having greater than atmospheric pressure.

More examples

In context

  • The main plenum was filled with delegates from every nation.

  • The idea was that a thing could only move into an empty place, and that, in a plenum, there are no empty places.

  • The key to understanding medieval interpretations of motion in hypothetically void space is to realize that medieval natural philosophers analyzed the same bodies in the void that they discussed in the plenum of their ordinary world.

Antonyms

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The board called a blank of all members to vote on the proposal.

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Origin

noun

From Latin plēnum n (“space filled with matter”), from plēnus (“full”). The sense of "legislative meeting" is a semantic loan from Russian пле́нум (plénum, “plenary session”), from the same Latin source.