# volume
## English
### Alternative forms

* vol. (abbreviation)

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈvɒl.juːm/, /ˈvɒl.jʊm/
* (US) IPA: /ˈvɑl.jum/, /ˈvɑl.jəm/
** Audio (US):(file)
* (Wales, Ottawa Valley) IPA: /ˈvɒlɪu̯m/
* Rhymes: -ɒljuːm, -ɒljʊm

### Noun

volume (countable and uncountable, plural volumes)
* 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.
* Strength of sound; loudness.
    Please turn down the volume on the stereo.
    Volume can be measured in decibels.
* 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.
* 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.
* A single book of a publication issued in multi-book format, such as an encyclopedia.
    The letter "G" was found in volume 4.
* (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.
* (obsolete) A roll or scroll, which was the form of ancient books.
* Quantity.
    The volume of ticket sales decreased this week.
* A rounded mass or convolution.
* (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.
* (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
* (climbing, bouldering) A modular foothold attached to a climbing wall used for gripping, often in triangular, pyramidal, or angular shapes.
* (graph theory) The sum of the degrees of a set of vertices.

#### Derived terms

* alcohol by volume
* atomic volume
* biovolume
* blood volume
* covolume
* diavolume
* eigenvolume
* envolume
* equivolume
* euvolemia
* fractional volume
* Hubble volume
* hypervolume
* intervolume
* isovolume
* Local Volume
* lung volume
* magnetovolume
* microvolume
* molar volume
* molecular volume
* multivolume
* nonvolume
* normovolemia
* Planck volume
* pressure volume diagram
* residual volume
* sales volume
* shadow volume
* specific volume
* stroke volume
* subvolume
* tidal volume
* turn up the volume on
* van der Waals volume
* volaemia
* volume clutter
* volume CT
* volume integral
* volumeless
* volumer
* volume resistivity
* volume sales
* volumescope
* volume shooter
* volumeter
* volumetric
* volumetrics
* volumetry
* volumette
* volumic
* voluminous
* volumise
* volumist
* volumize
* volumometer
* worldvolume

#### Translations

    The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

#### See also

* book
* tome

##### cubic distance

* Customary: ounce, pint, quart, gallons, cubic inch (in$^3$), cubic foot, cubic yard, cubic mile
* Metric: mililiter, liter, cubic meter (m$^3$), cubic centimeter ("cc") (cm$^3$)

##### sound

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

### Verb

volume (third-person singular simple present volumes, present participle voluming, simple past and past participle volumed)
* (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.
* (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?”
* (intransitive) To swell.

## Asturian
### Noun

volume m (plural volumes)
* volume

## Dutch
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌvoːˈly.mə/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: vo‧lu‧me

### Noun

volume n (plural volumen or volumes, diminutive volumetje n)
* volume (three-dimensional quantity of space)
* volume (sound level)
* (obsolete) volume, book (single book as an instalment in a series)

#### Derived terms

* hersenvolume
* volume-eenheid
* volumeknop
* volumemaat
* volumineus

#### Descendants

* → Indonesian: volumê

## French
### Etymology

From Latin volūmen.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vɔ.lym/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

volume m (plural volumes)
* volume (of a book, a written work)
* volume (sound)
* volume (amount of space something takes up)
* volume (amount; quantity)
* (figuratively) an overly long piece of writing

#### Derived terms

* volucompteur
* volume sonore

#### Related terms

* volumétrique
* volumineux

### Further reading

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

## Galician
### Etymology

From Latin volūmen (“a book, roll”).

### Noun

volume m (plural volumes)
* volume (quantity of space)
* volume (single book of a published work)

## Indonesian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Indonesian)
** IPA: /voˈlumə/ [foˈlu.mə]
*** Rhymes: -umə
** IPA: /voˈlume/ [foˈlu.me]
*** Rhymes: -ume
* Syllabification: vo‧lu‧me

### Noun

volumê or volumé
* volume; a three-dimensional measure of space that comprises a length, a width and a height
* volume, loudness; strength of sound
* volume, quantity
    Synonyms: banyaknya, besarnya, bobot, kuantitas
* volume; a single book of a publication issued in multi-book format
    Synonym: jilid
* volume; he issues of a periodical over a period of one year

#### Derived terms

* bervolume (“volumed”)
* volume molar (“molar volume”)

### References

* ↑ Nicoline van der Sijs (2010) Nederlandse woorden wereldwijd‎, Den Haag: Sdu Uitgevers, →ISBN, →OCLC

### Further reading

* “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.

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin volūmen.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /voˈlu.me/
* Rhymes: -ume
* Hyphenation: vo‧lù‧me
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

volume m (plural volumi)
* volume (clarification of this definition is needed)

#### Related terms

* volumenometro
* volumetria
* volumetrico
* voluminoso

### Further reading

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

## Old French
### Etymology

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

### Noun

volume m or f
* volume, specifically a collection of written works

#### Descendants

* → English: volume
* French: volume

## Portuguese
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /voˈlũ.mi/
* (Brazil) IPA: /voˈlũ.mi/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /voˈlu.me/
* (Portugal) IPA: /vuˈlu.mɨ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /vuˈlu.mɨ/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /buˈlu.mɨ/
* (Northeast Brazil) IPA: /vɔ.ˈlu.mɪ/, /vɔ.ˈlu.m/
* Hyphenation: vo‧lu‧me

### Noun

volume m (plural volumes)
* (geometry) volume (unit of three-dimensional measure)
* volume; loudness (strength of sound)
* (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)
* volume; quantity

#### Synonyms

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

#### Related terms

* volumoso