Definitions for plenums

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plenums ple·num

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

IPA: /ˈpli nəm, ˈplɛn əm/

Plenums is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 161 anagrams from letters in plenums (elmnpsu).

Definitions for plenums

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 plenums

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

Examples for plenums

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

Futurum erat Baptisma plenum maximæ Potestatis & Gratiæ purgaturum peccata.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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