volume

• vol. (abbreviation)

From Middle English volume, from Old French volume, from Latin volūmen (“book, roll”), from volvō (“roll, turn about”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈvɒl.juːm/, /ˈvɒl.jʊm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈvɑl.jum/, /ˈvɑl.jəm/

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• (Wales, Ottawa Valley) IPA^(key): /ˈvɒlɪu̯m/
• Rhymes: -ɒljuːm, -ɒljʊm

volume (countable and uncountable, plural volumes)

1. 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.

   The room is 9×12×8, so its volume is 864 cubic feet.

   The proper products can improve your hair's volume.

   • 1997, A. J. Taylor, D. S. Mothram, editors, Flavour Science: Recent Developments‎, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 63:

     Volatiles of kecap manis and its raw materials were extracted using Likens-Nickerson apparatus with diethyl ether as the extraction solvent. The extracts were then dried with anhydrous sodium sulfate, concentrated using a rotary evaporator followed by flushing using nitrogen until the volume was about 0.5 ml.

2. Strength of sound; loudness.

   Please turn down the volume on the stereo.

   Volume can be measured in decibels.

3. The issues of a periodical over a period of one year.

   I looked at this week's copy of the magazine. It was volume 23, issue 45.

4. A bound book.
   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     However, with the dainty volume my quondam friend sprang into fame. At the same time he cast off the chrysalis of a commonplace existence.

5. A single book of a publication issued in multi-book format, such as an encyclopedia.

   The letter "G" was found in volume 4.

6. (in the plural, by extension) A great amount (of meaning) about something.
   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     Ayesha wheeled round, and, pointing to the girl Ustane, said one word, and one only, but it was quite enough, for the tone in which it was said meant volumes.

7. (obsolete) A roll or scroll, which was the form of ancient books.
8. Quantity.

   The volume of ticket sales decreased this week.

9. A rounded mass or convolution.
10. (economics) The total supply of money in circulation or, less frequently, total amount of credit extended, within a specified national market or worldwide.
11. (computing) An accessible storage area with a single file system, typically resident on a single partition of a hard disk.
12. (bodybuilding) The total of weight worked by a muscle in one training session, the weight of every single repetition summed up.

    (key muscle growth stimuli) Coordinate terms: mechanical tension, frequency

• book
• tome

cubic distance

• Customary: ounce, pint, quart, gallons, cubic inch (in³), cubic foot, cubic yard, cubic mile
• Metric: mililiter, liter, cubic meter (m³), cubic centimeter ("cc") (cm³)

sound

• Universal: bel, decibel
• Metric: millipascal (mPa)

volume (third-person singular simple present volumes, present participle voluming, simple past and past participle volumed)

1. (intransitive) To be conveyed through the air, waft.
   • 1867, George Meredith, chapter 30, in Vittoria‎, volume 2, London: Chapman & Hall, page 258:

     […] thumping guns and pattering musket-shots, the long big boom of surgent hosts, and the muffled voluming and crash of storm-bells, proclaimed that the insurrection was hot.

   • 1885, William Dean Howells, chapter 2, in The Rise of Silas Lapham‎:

     […] the Colonel, before he sat down, went about shutting the registers, through which a welding heat came voluming up from the furnace.

2. (transitive) To cause to move through the air, waft.
   • 1872, George Macdonald, chapter 15, in Wilfrid Cumbermede‎, volume I, London: Hurst & Blackett, page 243:

     We lay leaning over the bows, now looking up at the mist blown in never-ending volumed sheets, now at the sail swelling in the wind before which it fled, and again down at the water through which our boat was ploughing its evanescent furrow.

   • 1900, Walter William Skeat, chapter 6, in Malay Magic‎, London: Macmillan, page 420:

     The censer, voluming upwards its ash-gray smoke, was now passed from hand to hand three times round the patient, and finally deposited on the floor at his feet.

   • 1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 33, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings‎, New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 219:

     The record player on the first floor volumed up Lonnie Johnson singing, “Tomorrow night, will you remember what you said tonight?”

3. (intransitive) To swell.

volume m (plural volumes)

1. volume

Borrowed from Middle French volume, from Old French volume, from Latin volūmen.

• IPA^(key): /ˌvoːˈly.mə/

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• Hyphenation: vo‧lu‧me

volume n (plural volumen or volumes, diminutive volumetje n)

1. volume (three-dimensional quantity of space)
2. volume (sound level)
3. (obsolete) volume, book (single book as an instalment in a series)

• volume-eenheid
• volumeknop
• volumemaat
• volumineus

• → Indonesian: volumê

From Latin volūmen.

• IPA^(key): /vɔ.lym/

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volume m (plural volumes)

1. volume (of a book, a written work)
2. volume (sound)
3. volume (amount of space something takes up)
4. volume (amount; quantity)
5. (figuratively) an overly long piece of writing

• volumétrique
• volumineux

• “volume”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Latin volūmen (“a book, roll”).

volume m (plural volumes)

1. volume (quantity of space)
2. volume (single book of a published work)

Internationalism, borrowed from Dutch volume, from Middle French volume, from Old French volume, from Latin volūmen.[1]

• IPA^(key): (standard) /voˈlumə/, (dialectal) /poˈlumə/
• Rhymes: -mə, -ə
• Hyphenation: vo‧lu‧mê

volumê (plural volume-volume, first-person possessive volumeku, second-person possessive volumemu, third-person possessive volumenya)

1. volume:
   1. A three-dimensional measure of space that comprises a length, a width and a height.
   2. loudness: strength of sound.
   3. quantity

      Synonyms: banyaknya, besarnya, bobot

   4. A single book of a publication issued in multi-book format.

      Synonym: jilid

   5. The issues of a periodical over a period of one year.

• “volume” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Latin volūmen.

• IPA^(key): /voˈlu.me/
• Rhymes: -ume
• Hyphenation: vo‧lù‧me

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volume m (plural volumi)

1. volume (clarification of this definition is needed)

• volumenometro
• volumetria
• volumetrico
• voluminoso

• volume in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Borrowed from Latin volūmen (“a book, roll”).

volume m or f

1. volume, specifically a collection of written works

• → English: volume
• French: volume

From Old Galician-Portuguese volume, borrowed from Latin volūmen.

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /vɔ.ˈlu.mɪ/, /vɔ.ˈlu.m/
• Hyphenation: vo‧lu‧me

volume m (plural volumes)

1. (geometry) volume (unit of three-dimensional measure)
2. volume; loudness (strength of sound)
3. (publishing) volume (issues of a periodical over a period of one year)
4. (publishing) volume (individual book of a publication issued as a set of books)
5. (chiefly historical) volume (bound book)
6. volume; quantity

• (single book of a set of books): tomo
• (quantity): quantidade, quantia

• volumoso