Definitions for plenum

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plenum ple·num

Spelling: [plee-nuh m, plen-uh m]

IPA: /ˈpli nəm, ˈplɛn əm/

Plenum is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 82 anagrams from letters in plenum (elmnpu).

Definitions for plenum

noun

1. the state or a space in which a gas, usually air, is contained at a pressure greater than atmospheric pressure.
2. a full assembly, as a joint legislative assembly.
3. a space, usually above a ceiling or below a floor, that can serve as a receiving chamber for air that has been heated or cooled to be distributed to inhabited areas.
4. the whole of space regarded as being filled with matter (opposed to vacuum).

Origin of plenum

1670-80; Latin, neuter of plēnus full¹, in the phrase plēnum (spatium) full (space)

Examples for plenum

May there not be set within set, each necessary to the motion of the other, till we approximate a plenum?

The two departments, united, form the "plenum" of the Senate.

Futurum erat Baptisma plenum maximæ Potestatis & Gratiæ purgaturum peccata.

He had left the world a plenum, and he now finds it a vacuum.

The same is true of many other facts besides a plenum and a vacuum.

Those things are there, right now, both in primary time and in the plenum.

The Aristotelian plenum was reintroduced in this form, that there might be some reality where the discrete atoms were not.

The two great principles of nature are a vacuum, and a plenum.

Referendum Law inches closer to basic law status after plenum vote.

Hence atoms and the void are also called the plenum and the vacuum.