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  • noun Plural form of plenum.

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Examples

  • She spoke with an affably modest air, as opposed to the hot air my housemates riotously spouted in the plenums.

    Potsdamer Strasse #2 Jasoni 2011

  • At the plenums, whenever anyone started voicing disagreement with one of his points he would shout them down with his booming voice.

    Potsdamer Strasse #4 Jasoni 2011

  • The slab can be heated by pumping warm water through the tubing or warm air through the plenums.

    Heating Your Home: Thermal Mass 2008

  • Typically, tubing, or less commonly, plenums duct-like voids run through the slab.

    Heating Your Home: Thermal Mass 2008

  • This is because the mixing problem is NOT trivial and becayse Antony and the like, lack any feel even a plug and chug use ASHRAE tables for large plenums for this problem.

    Lights = 0, Air Conditioners = 22 « Climate Audit 2007

  • The erstwhile MCCI, CPI(ML)[PW] and CPI(ML)[PU] had their respective central conferences, plenums, special meetings etc at regular intervals where they summed up their past work and the positive and negative aspects in advancing the people's war, made the necessary changes in the policies and tactics, and enriched the line.

    Interview with Ganapathy, General Secretary, CPI(Maoist) Abhay N 2007

  • The erstwhile parties that are now part of the CPI(Maoist)—the MCCI, CPI(ML)[PW] and CPI(ML)[PU]—had held their central conferences and plenums at regular intervals.

    Interview with Ganapathy, General Secretary, CPI(Maoist) Abhay N 2007

  • Thus through these conferences and plenums the entire Party was involved in the democratic process of discussions, internal struggle, and resolution of all disputed issues democratically.

    Interview with Ganapathy, General Secretary, CPI(Maoist) Abhay N 2007

  • The little puffs of debris out of the WTC during the collapse were interesting, but I expect that was just air being blown through stairwells and plenums and then blowing out windows.

    From the “What the Hell?” File « Whatever 2006

  • This time there was no distortion of reality, no breathtaking tour of unseen worlds and distant plenums.

    Jed the Dead Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1997

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