VOLUMED

volumed

(adjective) furnished with volumes; “a large room volumed with ancient books”

volumed

(adjective) formed or rising in rounded masses; “gasping with the volumed smoke”

volumed

(adjective) (often used in combination) consisting of or having a given number or kind of volumes; “the poet’s volumed works”; “a two-volumed history”; “multi-volumed encyclopedias”; “large-volumed editions”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

volumed (not comparable)

Having volume, or bulk; massive.

(archaic) Having the form of a volume, or roil.

Verb

volumed

simple past tense and past participle of volume

Source: Wiktionary

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Vol"umed, a.

1. Having the form of a volume, or roil; as, volumed mist. The distant torrent's rushing sound Tells where the volumed cataract doth roll. Byron.

2. Having volume, or bulk; massive; great.

VOLUME

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 4º 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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