plenum

See also: plénum

English

Etymology

From Latin plēnum, noun use of neuter of plēnus (full). The sense of "legislative meeting" is a semantic loan from Russian пле́нум (plénum, plenary session), from the same Latin source.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpliːnəm/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈplɛnəm/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -iːnəm
  • Rhymes: -ɛnəm

Noun

plenum (plural plenums or plena)

  1. (physics) A space that is completely filled with matter.
    • 1946, Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy:
      The idea was that a thing could only move into an empty place, and that, in a plenum, there are no empty places.
    • 2001, Edward Grant, God and Reason in the Middle Ages, page 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.

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Latin

Adjective

plēnum

  1. inflection of plēnus:
    1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
    2. accusative masculine singular

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.
    Thomas Giertsen var på apoteket og kassapersonen annonserte at han hadde en soppinfeksjon høyt i plenum så alle hørte det.
    Thomas Giertsen was in the apothecary and the pharmacist announced loudly his fungal infection to those present in the shop.

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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

Polish

Etymology

Internationalism; possibly borrowed from German Plenum, French plenum, or English plenum, ultimately from Latin plēnum.[1][2] First attested in the 20th century.[3]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈplɛ.num/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛnum
  • Syllabification: ple‧num

Noun

plenum n

  1. plenum (a legislative meeting (especially of the Communist Party) in which all members are present)
  2. plenum (members gathered at such a meeting)

Declension

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), plenum is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 0 times in scientific texts, 25 times in news, 36 times in essays, 0 times in fiction, and 1 time in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 62 times, making it the 1058th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[4]

References

  1. Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “plenum”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
  2. Stanisław Dubisz, editor (2003), “plenum”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volumes 1-4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA, →ISBN
  3. Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “plenum”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN
  4. Ida Kurcz (1990) “plenum”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 374

Further reading

  • plenum in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • plenum in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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