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US
/ˈpɫɛnəm/
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[ UK /plˈɛnəm/ ]
[ UK /plˈɛnəm/ ]
NOUN
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a meeting of a legislative body at which all members are present
the plenum will vote on all tax increases - an enclosed space in which the air pressure is higher than outside
How To Use plenum In A Sentence
- The decision-making Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam started a plenum Monday in Hanoi to prepare documents for the party's congress scheduled for March next year, according to party sources.
- Ad plenum calcentur: aqua eludabitur omnis Scilicet, et grandes ibunt per vimina guttae; P. Virgilii Maronis Opera
- Hanc postquam Tartari ceperunt, ad dimidium miliare fecerunt vnam ciuitatem nomine Caydo, et habet duodecim portas, et � porta in portam duo sunt grossa miliaria Lombardica, spacium inter medium istarum ciuitatum habitatoribus plenum est, et circuitus cuiuslibet istarum ambit 60. miliaria Lombardica, qu� faciunt octo The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
- The seventh and eight plenums, held in August and November 1999, began preparations for the Ninth National Party Congress scheduled for the first quarter of 2001.
- Et dicit liber Iesum sanctissimum omnium Prophetarum fuisse veracem in dictis et factis, benignum, pium, iustum, et ab omni vitio penitus alienum: Sanctum quoque Ioannem Euangelistam post prædictos Prophetas fuisse alijs Sanctiorem, cuius et Euangelium fatentur esse plenum salutari, ac veraci doctrina, et ipsum Sanctum The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
- Briefly, four replicate 25 m diameter toroidal plenum rings constructed from 0.305 m diameter pipe were placed in the field shortly after planting.
- Molotov lost the post of foreign minister in 1949; and, from 1952, his career fell into eclipse when Stalin criticized him at a Central Committee plenum.
- But it is more usual to employ what is called the plenum process, in which air under high pressure is pumped into the caisson and expels the water, as in a diving bell. Scientific American Supplement, No. 417, December 29, 1883
- In conjunction with some hard foam strips, the chrome shrouds raise the fans away from the radiator surface to give a plenum area for each fan.
- The plenum was of crucial symbolic importance for Mr Hu.