VOLUMING
Verb
voluming
present participle of volume
Source: Wiktionary
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