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Plenum   /plˈɛnəm/   Listen
Plenum

noun
(pl. plena, plenums)
1.
A meeting of a legislative body at which all members are present.
2.
An enclosed space in which the air pressure is higher than outside.





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"Plenum" Quotes from Famous Books



... a new system of physics {166} founded upon the principle of an universal Plenum of elementary fire.... By R. Lovett, Worcester, ...
— A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) • Augustus De Morgan
... of bodies have struggled for victory with various fortunes since the earliest ages of speculation: one is the theory of a universal plenum, the other is that of atoms ...
— Five of Maxwell's Papers • James Clerk Maxwell


Words linked to "Plenum" :   enclosure, meeting, plenary, group meeting


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