volume

• vol. (abbreviation)

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈvɒl.juːm/, /ˈvɒl.jʊm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈvɑl.jum/, /ˈvɑl.jəm/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

volume (countable and uncountable, plural volumes)

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.

   The room is 9x12x8, so its volume is 864 cubic feet.

   • 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.

2. Strength of sound; loudness.

   Please turn down the volume on the stereo.

   Volume can be measured in decibels.

3. 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.

4. A bound book.
   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 1, in The Celebrity:

     However, with the dainty volume my quondam friend sprang into fame. At the same time he cast off the chrysalis of a commonplace existence.

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

   The letter "G" was found in volume 4.

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

   The volume of ticket sales decreased this week.

8. A rounded mass or convolution.
9. (economics) The total supply of money in circulation or, less frequently, total amount of credit extended, within a specified national market or worldwide.
10. (computing) An accessible storage area with a single file system, typically resident on a single partition of a hard disk.

• voluminous

• book
• tome

cubic distance

• Customary: ounces, pints, quarts, gallons, cubic inches (in³), cubic feet, cubic yards, cubic miles
• Metric: mililiters, liters, cubic meters (m³), cubic centimeters ("cc") (cm³)

sound

• Universal: bels, decibels
• Metric: millipascals (mPa)

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

1. (intransitive) To be conveyed through the air, waft.
   • 1867, George Meredith, Vittoria, London: Chapman & Hall, Volume 2, Chapter 30, p. 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.

   • 1884, William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham, Chapter 2,

     […] the Colonel, before he sat down, went about shutting the registers, through which a welding heat came voluming up from the furnace.

2. (transitive) To cause to move through the air, waft.
   • 1872, George Macdonald, Wilfrid Cumbermede, London: Hurst & Blackett Volume I, Chapter 15, p. 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, Malay Magic, London: Macmillan, Chapter 6, p. 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, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, 1971, Chapter 33, p. 219,

     The record player on the first floor volumed up Lonnie Johnson singing, “Tomorrow night, will you remember what you said tonight?”

3. (intransitive) To swell.

volume m (plural volumes)

1. volume

• Audio

  (file)

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

1. volume

From Latin volūmen.

• IPA^(key): /vɔ.lym/

• audio

  (file)

volume m (plural volumes)

1. volume (of a book, a written work)
2. volume (sound)
3. volume (amount of space something takes up)
4. volume (amount; quantity)
5. (figuratively) an overly long piece of writing

• volumétrique
• volumineux

• “volume” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Latin volūmen (“a book, roll”).

volume m (plural volumes)

1. volume (quantity of space)
2. volume (single book of a published work)

volume m (plural volumi)

1. volume

• volumenometro
• volumetria
• volumetrico
• voluminosità
• voluminoso

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

volume m or f

1. volume, specifically a collection of written works

• English: volume (borrowed)
• French: volume

From Old Portuguese volume, borrowed from Latin volūmen.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /vo.ˈlu.mi/
  • (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /vɔ.ˈlu.mɪ/, /vɔ.ˈlu.m/

volume m (plural volumes)

1. (geometry) volume (unit of three-dimensional measure)
2. volume; loudness (strength of sound)
3. (publishing) volume (issues of a periodical over a period of one year)
4. (publishing) volume (individual book of a publication issued as a set of books)
5. (chiefly historical) volume (bound book)
6. volume; quantity

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

• volumoso