volume
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɒl.juːm/
ipa: /ˈvɒl.jʊm/
ipa: /ˈvɑ.ljum/
ipa: /ˈvɑ.ljəm/
note: Wales, Ottawa Valley
ipa: /ˈvɒlɪu̯m/
rhymes: -ɒljuːm
rhymes: -ɒljʊm
Forms: form: volumes
form: vol.
Etymology: From Middle English volume, from Old French volume, from Latin volūmen (“book, roll”), from volvō (“roll, turn about”).
Senses: examples: text: The room is 9×12×8, so its volume is 864 cubic feet.
text: The proper products can improve your hair's volume.
text: 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.
ref: 1997, A. J. Taylor, D. S. Mothram, editors, Flavour Science: Recent Developments, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 63:
glosses: 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.
examples: text: Please turn down the volume on the stereo.
text: Volume can be measured in decibels.
glosses: Strength of sound; loudness.
examples: text: I looked at this week's copy of the magazine. It was volume 23, issue 45.
glosses: The issues of a periodical over a period of one year.
examples: text: However, with the dainty volume my quondam friend sprang into fame. At the same time he cast off the chrysalis of a commonplace existence.
ref: 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:
glosses: A bound book.
examples: text: The letter "G" was found in volume 4.
glosses: A single book of a publication issued in multi-book format, such as an encyclopedia.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: A great amount (of meaning) about something.
glosses: A roll or scroll, which was the form of ancient books.
examples: text: The volume of ticket sales decreased this week.
glosses: Quantity.
glosses: A rounded mass or convolution.
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The total supply of money in circulation or, less frequently, total amount of credit extended, within a specified national market or worldwide.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An accessible storage area with a single file system, typically resident on a single partition of a hard disk.
examples: (key muscle growth stimuli)
topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
coordinate_terms: mechanical tension
frequency
glosses: The total of weight worked by a muscle in one training session, the weight of every single repetition summed up.
topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
qualifier: bouldering
glosses: A modular foothold attached to a climbing wall used for gripping, often in triangular, pyramidal, or angular shapes.
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: 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
Related terms: word: book
word: tome
word: cubic distance
sense: Customary
word: ounce
sense: Customary
word: pint
sense: Customary
word: quart
sense: Customary
word: gallon
sense: Customary
alt: in3
word: cubic inch
sense: Customary
word: cubic foot
sense: Customary
word: cubic yard
sense: Customary
word: cubic mile
sense: Metric
word: mililiter
sense: Metric
word: liter
sense: Metric
alt: m3
word: cubic meter
sense: Metric
english: cc
translation: cc
alt: cm3
word: cubic centimeter ()
word: sound
sense: Universal
word: bel
sense: Universal
word: decibel
sense: Metric
alt: mPa
word: millipascal