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Volume - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Volume : (noun)
1: the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object;
"the gas expanded to twice its original volume"
2: 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" [syn: bulk, mass]
3: physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound
together; "he used a large book as a doorstop" [syn: book]
4: 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"
5: a relative amount; "mix one volume of the solution with ten
volumes of water"
6: the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction);
"the kids played their music at full volume" [syn: loudness,
intensity] [ant: softness]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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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).
--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.) 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[deg] C. as a standard)
to the number of cubic centimeters occupied by one gram of
the substance.
Based on WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003)
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Example Usage of Volume |
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