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plenary
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin pl?n?rius, from Latin pl?nus (“full”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?pli?n??i/
- (US) IPA(key): /?pli?n??i/, /?pl?n??i/
- Rhymes: -i?n??i, -?n??i
Adjective
plenary (comparative more plenary, superlative most plenary)
- Fully attended; for everyone's attendance.
- (theology or law) Complete; full; entire; absolute.
- 1725, Isaac Watts, Logick, or The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry After Truth With a Variety of Rules to Guard
- The method of treating a subject should be plenary or full.
- 1725, Isaac Watts, Logick, or The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry After Truth With a Variety of Rules to Guard
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
plenary (plural plenaries)
- plenary session
- After lunch, we will all be in the main auditorium listening to the plenary.
- (pedagogy) Part of a lesson, usually at or towards the end, designed to review or evaluate the learning that has taken place.
References
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plenum
English
Etymology
From Latin pl?num, noun use of neuter of pl?nus (“full”). The sense of "legislative meeting" is a semantic loan from Russian ??????? (plénum, “plenary session”), from the same Latin source.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?pli?n?m/
Noun
plenum (plural plenums or plena)
- (physics) A space that is completely filled with matter.
- 2001, Edward Grant, God and Reason in the Middle Ages, p. 176:
- 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.
- 2001, Edward Grant, God and Reason in the Middle Ages, p. 176:
- (figuratively) A state of fullness, a great quantity (of something).
- 1974, Guy Davenport Tatlin!:
- He lay on the long stone slant down to the slapping waves, his denim shorts, sneakers, and socks under his head for a pillow, feeling the splendour of distance in all directions, the liquid silence, the plenum of aloneness.
- 1974, Guy Davenport Tatlin!:
- A legislative meeting (especially of the Communist Party) in which all members are present.
- An enclosed space having greater than atmospheric pressure.
- The space above a false ceiling used for cables, ducts etc.
- (computing) A type of network cabling which satisfies plenum-ratings issued by the National Electrical Code. These cables produce less smoke and fumes in the event of fire.
Antonyms
- vacuum
Related terms
- plenary
- in pleno
Translations
Anagrams
- lumpen
Latin
Adjective
pl?num
- nominative neuter singular of pl?nus
- accusative masculine singular of pl?nus
- accusative neuter singular of pl?nus
- vocative neuter singular of pl?nus
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin plenum
Noun
plenum n (definite singular plenumet, indefinite plural plena, definite plural plenaene)
- a plenum (meeting)
- a plenary session
- In public; somewhere (sometime) where and when everyone's allowed: not restricted to a certain group or the like.
References
- “plenum” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “plenum” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Latin plenum
Noun
plenum n (definite singular plenumet, indefinite plural plenum, definite plural plenuma)
- a plenum (meeting)
- a plenary session
References
- “plenum” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish
Etymology
From Latin plenum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?pl?.num/
Noun
plenum n
- plenum (legislative meeting)
Declension
Further reading
- plenum in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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