volume

volume (three-dimensional quantity of space)

(obsolete) volume, book (single book as an instalment in a series)

nl-noun

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

volumen (plural)
volumes (plural)
volumetje (diminutive neuter)

→ Indonesian: volumê

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


volume

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 a rotary evaporator followed by flushing using nitrogen until the volume was about 0.5 ml.

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

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.

Please turn down the volume on the stereo.

Volume can be measured in decibels.

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

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

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 Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

The letter "G" was found in volume 4.

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

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 History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

(in the plural, by extension) A great amount (of meaning) about something.

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

The volume of ticket sales decreased this week.

(economics) The total supply of money in circulation or, less frequently, total amount of credit extended, within a specified national market or worldwide.

(computing) An accessible storage area with a single file system, typically resident on a single partition of a hard disk.

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

(bodybuilding) The total of weight worked by a muscle in one training session, the weight of every single repetition summed up.

en-noun

volume (countable and uncountable, plural volumes)

ծավալ

synonym for quantity — see also quantity

rahan määrä

economics: total supply of money in circulation

том

computing: accessible storage area with a single file system

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


volume

[…] 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 Vittoria, volume 2, London: Chapman & Hall, page 258:

[…] 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:

(intransitive) To be conveyed 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 its evanescent furrow.

1872, George Macdonald, chapter 15, in Wilfrid Cumbermede, volume I, London: Hurst & Blackett, page 243:

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, London: Macmillan, page 420:

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, published 1971, page 219:

(transitive) To cause to move through the air, waft.

en-verb

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

volumes (present singular third-person)
voluming (participle present)
volumed (participle past)
volumed (past)


volume

volume (amount of space something takes up)

(figuratively) an overly long piece of writing


volume

volume (single book of a published work)


volume

A three-dimensional measure of space that comprises a length, a width and a height.

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

id-noun

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

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

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


volume

volume, specifically a collection of written works

→ English: volume

French: volume

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


volume

(geometry) volume (unit of three-dimensional measure)

(publishing) volume (issues of a periodical over a period of one year)

(publishing) volume (individual book of a publication issued as a set of books)

(chiefly historical) volume (bound book)

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