volume

Plural: volumes

Noun

• the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object
  • "the gas expanded to twice its original volume"
• the property of something that is great in magnitude
  • "the volume of exports"
• physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together
• a publication that is one of a set of several similar publications
  • "the third volume was missing"
  • "he asked for the 1989 volume of the Annual Review"
• a relative amount
  • "mix one volume of the solution with ten volumes of water"
• the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction)
  • "the kids played their music at full volume"
• 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.
• Strength of sound; loudness.
• The issues of a periodical over a period of one year.
• A bound book.
• A single book of a publication issued in multi-book format, such as an encyclopedia.
• A great amount (of meaning) about something.
• A roll or scroll, which was the form of ancient books.
• Quantity.
• A rounded mass or convolution.
• The total supply of money in circulation or, less frequently, total amount of credit extended, within a specified national market or worldwide.
• An accessible storage area with a single file system, typically resident on a single partition of a hard disk.
• The total of weight worked by a muscle in one training session, the weight of every single repetition summed up.
• A modular foothold attached to a climbing wall used for gripping, often in triangular, pyramidal, or angular shapes.
• The sum of the degrees of a set of vertices.

Verb

Verb Forms: volumed, voluming, volumes

• To send or give out in large quantities.
• To be conveyed through the air, waft.
• To cause to move through the air, waft.
• To swell.

Examples

• I looked at this week's copy of the magazine. It was volume 23, issue 45.
• Please turn down the volume on the stereo.
• The letter "G" was found in volume 4.
• The proper products can improve your hair's volume.
• The room is 9×12×8, so its volume is 864 cubic feet.
• The Scrabble player hoped to volume high-scoring words onto the board.
• The volume of ticket sales decreased this week.
• Volume can be measured in decibels.

Synonyms

book, bulk, intensity, loudness, mass

Antonyms

softness

Related Words

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