volume

Noun

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.
   • 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...
2. Strength of sound: how loud it is.
   • Please turn down the volume on the stereo.
   • Volume can be measured in decibels.
   • This is not only how we stop Trump; it’s how we stop the next one. So, Donald Trump, since I know you’re watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up. - 2025 November 5, Zohran Mamdani, “The Full Transcript...

   Synonyms: loudness

   Coordinate Terms: pitch timbre tone color

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.
   • However, with the dainty volume my quondam friend sprang into fame. At the same time he cast off the chrysalis of a commonplace existence. - 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The...
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. A great amount (of meaning) about something.
   • 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. - 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A...
7. 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. The total supply of money in circulation or, less frequently, total amount of credit extended, within a specified national market or worldwide.
11. An accessible storage area with a single file system, typically resident on a single partition of a hard disk.
12. 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

Verb

1. To be conveyed through the air, waft.
   • […] 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. - 1867, George Meredith, chapter 30, in...
   • […] the Colonel, before he sat down, went about shutting the registers, through which a welding heat came voluming up from the furnace. - 1885, William Dean Howells, chapter 2, in The Rise of Silas Lapham:
2. To cause to move through the air, waft.
   • 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...
   • 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. - 1900, Walter William Skeat, chapter 6, in Malay Magic,...
   • The record player on the first floor volumed up Lonnie Johnson singing, “Tomorrow night, will you remember what you said tonight?” - 1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 33, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam,...
3. To swell.

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