different between pressure vs plenum

English

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin press?ra.

Pronunciation

• enPR: pr?sh?-?(r), IPA^(key): /?p????(?)/
  • (UK) IPA^(key): [?p???.?(?)]
  • (US) IPA^(key): [?p???.?]
• Rhymes: -???(?)
• Hyphenation: pres?sure

Noun

pressure (countable and uncountable, plural pressures)

1. A pressing; a force applied to a surface.

   Apply pressure to the wound to stop the bleeding.

2. A contrasting force or impulse of any kind

   the pressure of poverty; the pressure of taxes; the pressure of motives on the mind; the pressure of civilization.
3. Distress.
   • 1649, Eikon Basilike

     My people's pressures are grievous.

   • October 31, 1708, Francis Atterbury, a sermon preach'd before the Queen at St. James's

     In the midst of his great troubles and pressures.
4. Urgency

   the pressure of business

5. (obsolete) Impression; stamp; character impressed.
6. (physics) The amount of force that is applied over a given area divided by the size of this area.

Synonyms

• (distress): affliction, grievance
• (urgency): press

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

pressure (third-person singular simple present pressures, present participle pressuring, simple past and past participle pressured)

1. (transitive) To encourage or heavily exert force or influence.

   Do not let anyone pressure you into buying something you do not want.

Translations

See also

• (units of pressure): pascal (Pa); bar, barye (Ba); pounds per square inch (psi, lbf/in², lb/in²), torr, mmHg, atmosphere (atm)

Anagrams

• perusers

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: pressurent, pressures

Verb

pressure

1. first-person singular present indicative of pressurer
2. third-person singular present indicative of pressurer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of pressurer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of pressurer
5. second-person singular imperative of pressurer

Latin

Participle

press?re

1. vocative masculine singular of press?rus

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin press?ra.

Noun

pressure f (oblique plural pressures, nominative singular pressure, nominative plural pressures)

1. pressure (action or result of pressing)

Descendants

• ? English: pressure

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)

1. (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.

2. (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.

3. A legislative meeting (especially of the Communist Party) in which all members are present.
4. An enclosed space having greater than atmospheric pressure.
5. The space above a false ceiling used for cables, ducts etc.
6. (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

1. nominative neuter singular of pl?nus
2. accusative masculine singular of pl?nus
3. accusative neuter singular of pl?nus
4. vocative neuter singular of pl?nus

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin plenum

Noun

plenum n (definite singular plenumet, indefinite plural plena, definite plural plenaene)

1. a plenum (meeting)
2. a plenary session
3. 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)

1. a plenum (meeting)
2. a plenary session

References

• “plenum” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From Latin plenum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pl?.num/

Noun

plenum n

1. plenum (legislative meeting)

Declension

Further reading

• plenum in Polish dictionaries at PWN