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A flat slab pretending it's just decor while secretly holding everything together.
means A flat, usually rectangular section of a surface, board, or material — or a group of people convened to discuss, judge, or decide something.
from From Old French 'panel,' meaning a piece of cloth or a small pad, which came from Latin 'pannus,' meaning 'a cloth' (the same root that gives us 'pane'). The leap from fabric to furniture and committees ran through the 'small piece' idea: a panel was once a literal scrap, then a flat section set into a door or wall, then — in legal use — a slip of parchment listing jurors, and from that list the 'panel' became the group of people themselves.
- jury origin
- Once meant a list of names on parchment
- solar trick
- Converts photons to volts with no moving parts
- comic grammar
- The frame is the comic's basic sentence
- expert ritual
- Four people, one mic, infinite tangents
oval office situation room — white house crisis management center where president biden's advisors met during october 2024 middle east tensions
judges panel american idol — katy perry, lionel richie, luke bryan have judged contestants since 2015
un security council — 15-member panel with 5 permanent members holding veto power since 1945