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VOLUME
book, volume
(noun) physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together; “he used a large book as a doorstop”
volume, loudness, intensity
(noun) the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction); “the kids played their music at full volume”
bulk, mass, volume
(noun) the property of something that is great in magnitude; “it is cheaper to buy it in bulk”; “he received a mass of correspondence”; “the volume of exports”
volume
(noun) a publication that is one of a set of several similar publications; “the third volume was missing”; “he asked for the 1989 volume of the Annual Review”
volume
(noun) the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object; “the gas expanded to twice its original volume”
volume
(noun) a relative amount; “mix one volume of the solution with ten volumes of water”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
volume (countable and uncountable, plural volumes)
A three-dimensional measure of space that comprises a length, a width and a height. It is measured in units of cubic centimeters in metric, cubic inches or cubic feet in English measurement.
Strength of sound; loudness.
The issues of a periodical over a period of one year.
A bound book.
A single book of a publication issued in multi-book format, such as an encyclopedia.
(obsolete) A roll or scroll, which was the form of ancient books.
Quantity.
A rounded mass or convolution.
(economics) The total supply of money in circulation or, less frequently, total amount of credit extended, within a specified national market or worldwide.
(computing) An accessible storage area with a single file system, typically resident on a single partition of a hard disk.
Verb
volume (third-person singular simple present volumes, present participle voluming, simple past and past participle volumed)
(intransitive) To be conveyed through the air, waft.
(transitive) To cause to move through the air, waft.
(intransitive) To swell.
Source: Wiktionary
Vol"ume, n. Etym: [F., from L. volumen a roll of writing, a book, volume, from volvere, volutum, to roll. See Voluble.]
1. A roll; a scroll; a written document rolled up for keeping or for use, after the manner of the ancients. [Obs.] The papyrus, and afterward the parchment, was joined together [by the ancients] to form one sheet, and then rolled upon a staff into a volume (volumen). Encyc. Brit.
2. Hence, a collection of printed sheets bound together, whether containing a single work, or a part of a work, or more than one work; a book; a tome; especially, that part of an extended work which is bound up together in one cover; as, a work in four volumes. An odd volume of a set of books bears not the value of its proportion to the set. Franklin.
4. Anything of a rounded or swelling form resembling a roll; a turn; a convolution; a coil. So glides some trodden serpent on the grass, And long behind wounded volume trails. Dryden. Undulating billows rolling their silver volumes. W. Irving.
4. Dimensions; compass; space occupied, as measured by cubic units, that is, cubic inches, feet, yards, etc.; mass; bulk; as, the volume of an elephant's body; a volume of gas.
5. (Mus.)
Definition: Amount, fullness, quantity, or caliber of voice or tone. Atomic volume, Molecular volume (Chem.), the ratio of the atomic and molecular weights divided respectively by the specific gravity of the substance in question.
– Specific volume (Physics & Chem.), the quotient obtained by dividing unity by the specific gravity; the reciprocal of the specific gravity. It is equal (when the specific gravity is referred to water at 4Âş C. as a standard) to the number of cubic centimeters occupied by one gram of the substance.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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