What is the difference between plenary and plenum?
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Fully attended; for everyone's attendance.
(theology, or, legal) Complete; full; entire; absolute.
* I. Watts
plenary session
(physics) A space that is completely filled with matter.
* 1946 , Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy :
* 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! :
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 are safer in case of a fire, producing less smoke and fumes.
Plenum is a related term of plenary.
As nouns the difference between plenary and plenum
is that plenary is plenary session while plenum is a space that is completely filled with matter.As an adjective plenary
is fully attended; for everyone's attendance.plenary
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- A treatise on a subject should be plenary or full.
Derived terms
* plenary court * plenary session * plenary speaker * plenary talkNoun
(plenaries)- After lunch, we will all be in the main auditorium listening to the plenary .
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plenum
English
Noun
(en-noun)- The idea was that a thing could only move into an empty place, and that, in a plenum , there are no empty places.
- 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.
- 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.