English Explanatory Dictionary

volume

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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.
  2. Strength of sound: how loud it is.
  3. The issues of a periodical over a period of one year.
  4. A bound book.
  5. A single book of a publication issued in multi-book format, such as an encyclopedia.
  6. A great amount (of meaning) about something.
  7. A roll or scroll, which was the form of ancient books.
  8. Quantity.
  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.
verb
  1. To be conveyed through the air, waft.
  2. To cause to move through the air, waft.
  3. To swell.

Pronunciation

/ˈvɒl.juːm/ /ˈvɒl.jʊm/ /ˈvɑl.jum/ /ˈvɑl.jəm/ en-us-volume.ogg /ˈvɒlɪu̯m/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-volume.wav

Word forms

volume volumes vol. voluming volumed

Etymology

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

Synonyms

loudness

Related words

book tome cubic distance sound mililiter liter cubic meter cubic centimeter () millipascal bel decibel ounce pint quart gallon cubic inch cubic foot cubic yard cubic mile

Derived words

alcohol by volume atomic volume biovolume bio-volume blood volume co-volume covolume diavolume eigen-volume eigenvolume envolume equivolume equi-volume euvolemia fractional volume Hubble volume hyper-volume hypervolume intervolume inter-volume iso-volume isovolume Local Volume lung volume magneto-volume magnetovolume microvolume micro-volume molar volume molecular volume multi-volume multivolume non-volume nonvolume normovolemia Planck volume pressure volume diagram residual volume sales volume shadow volume specific volume stroke volume subvolume sub-volume tidal volume turn up the volume on van der Waals volume volaemia volemia volume clutter volume CT volume defect volume integral volume-less volumeless volumer volume resistivity volume sales volume-scope volumescope
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