volume

[Vol·ume]

Volume can mean how much space something takes up. You could measure a bean's volume by placing it in water and measuring the water's rise.

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A roll; a scroll; a written document rolled up for keeping or for use, after the manner of the ancients.

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physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together; "he used a large book as a doorstop"

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the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction); "the kids played their music at full volume"

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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"

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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"

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the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object; "the gas expanded to twice its original volume"

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a relative amount; "mix one volume of the solution with ten volumes of water"

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A roll; a scroll; a written document rolled up for keeping or for use, after the manner of the ancients.

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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.

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Anything of a rounded or swelling form resembling a roll; a turn; a convolution; a coil.

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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.

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Amount, fullness, quantity, or caliber of voice or tone.

Volume

Vol"ume , n. [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).
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.
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.
Undulating billows rolling their silver volumes.
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.) 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 4° C. as a standard) to the number of cubic centimeters occupied by one gram of the substance.

A roll; a scroll; a written document rolled up for keeping or for use, after the manner of the ancients.

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Usage Examples

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.

Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today.

A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

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Other Usage Examples

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself and can never be erased.

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano.

I've completed the first part of my preparations without injury problems. My speed is good and I'm doing lots of volume for strength.