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plenum

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In a building, the space between the real ceiling and the dropped ceiling, which is often used as an air duct for heating and air conditioning. It is also filled with electrical, telephone and network wires. See plenum cable.



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Evil do I call it and misanthropic: all that teaching about the one, and the plenum, and the unmoved, and the sufficient, and the imperishable!
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context
As the ancient said, the world is a plenum or solid; and if we saw all things that really surround us we should be imprisoned and unable to move.
Essays, Second Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo View in context
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