plenum
the state or a space in which a gas, usually air, is contained at a pressure greater than atmospheric pressure.
a full assembly, as a joint legislative assembly.
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.
the whole of space regarded as being filled with matter (opposed to vacuum).
Origin of plenum
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How to use plenum in a sentence
I set the tile aside, feeling a rush of cold tickle my nose as a gust of chill whips up from the exposed underfloor plenum.
Inside the physical footprint of the Cloud | Steven Gonzales Monserrate/The MIT Press Reader | February 14, 2022 | Popular-ScienceReferendum Law inches closer to basic law status after plenum vote.
Qulibet ecclesia congregetur et eligat ex se ipsa unum plenum fide et Spiritu Dei.
History of the Great Reformation, Volume IV | J. H. Merle D'AubignSome of my brethren might be alarmed as at febrile indications; they would bleed you—even ad plenum rivum—forgive the Latin.
The Lady of Lynn | Walter BesantA thermostat is placed in the tempered-air part of the plenum room to maintain the proper temperature of the tempered air.
Physics | Willis Eugene Tower
A discussion of this kind is perhaps more than any other periculosæ plenum opus aleæ; but it is too important to be neglected.
The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory | George SaintsburyNature is a plenum, is finished, and the Divine account with her is closed; but man is only yet a chick in the egg.
British Dictionary definitions for plenum
/ (ˈpliːnəm) /
an enclosure containing gas at a higher pressure than the surrounding environment
a fully attended meeting or assembly, esp of a legislative body
(esp in the philosophy of the Stoics) space regarded as filled with matter: Compare vacuum (def. 1)
the condition or quality of being full
Origin of plenum
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