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plenum

n. countable
C2 Proficiency US //ˈpɫɛnəm// UK //plˈɛnəm// plenum

n. a meeting where everyone in a group is present. It can also mean a space that is completely full of something, like air or gas.

n. a meeting of an entire body or assembly; also, a chamber or space filled with a fluid or gas. Often used in technical contexts to describe a volume of air or a full assembly of delegates.


SIMPLE

The committee will discuss the proposal in a plenum tomorrow.

CONTEXTUAL

After the breakout sessions, all the delegates gathered in the main hall for a plenum to vote on the final report.

COMPLEX

The physicist explained that the experiment required a vacuum, as the presence of air in the plenum would interfere with the delicate measurements of the particle's trajectory.

Origin

From Latin plēnum n (“space filled with matter”), from plēnus (“full”). The sense of "legislative meeting" is a semantic loan from Russian пле́нум (plénum, “plenary session”), from the same Latin source.

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