volume

plural volumes · alternative abbreviation vol.

1. countableuncountableA 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 proper products can improve your hair's volume.

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   The room is 9×12×8, so its volume is 864 cubic feet.

   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.

   1997, A. J. Taylor, D. S. Mothram, editors, Flavour Science: Recent Developments, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 63

2. countableuncountableStrength of sound: how loud it is.

   Volume can be measured in decibels.

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   Please turn down the volume on the stereo.

   This is not only how we stop Trump; it’s how we stop the next one. So, Donald Trump, since I know you’re watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up.

   2025 November 5, Zohran Mamdani, “The Full Transcript of Zohran Mamdani’s Victory Speech”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Nov 2025

   Synonyms: loudness

3. countableuncountableThe 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. countableuncountableA bound book.

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

   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

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

   The letter "G" was found in volume 4.

6. broadlycountablein pluraluncountableA great amount (of meaning) about something.

   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.

   1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC

7. countablehistoricaluncountableA roll or scroll, which was the form of ancient books.

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   The Bible comprises, according to Jewish tradition, 24 books in three major sections: the Pentateuch (Torah); Former and Latter Prophets, and Hagiographa (or writing). The last includes five books, Songs of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes and Esther which are called specifically megillot (scrolls).

   1985, David Goldstein, Hebrew Manuscript Painting, British Library, →ISBN, page 11, University of Michigan

8. countableuncountableQuantity.

   The volume of ticket sales decreased this week.

9. countableuncountableA rounded mass or convolution.
10. countableuncountableeconomicsThe total supply of money in circulation or, less frequently, total amount of credit extended, within a specified national market or worldwide.
11. countableuncountablecomputingAn accessible storage area with a single file system, typically resident on a single partition of a hard disk.
12. countableuncountablebodybuildingThe total of weight worked by a muscle in one training session, the weight of every single repetition summed up.

    (key muscle growth stimuli)

13. countableuncountableboulderingclimbingA modular foothold attached to a climbing wall used for gripping, often in triangular, pyramidal, or angular shapes.
14. countableuncountablegraph theoryThe sum of the degrees of a set of vertices.
15. countableuncountablebroadcastingA green/blue-screen chromakey visual effects (“VFX”) sound stage surrounded by a multitude of filming cameras, to allow for virtual camera changes in post production, by filming the whole 3-D volume of a chromakey film set.
16. countableuncountablebroadcastingA sound stage film set that has walls of video monitors, substituting for an actual background, set structures, providing a changeable video matte painting. A set with a form of projected background, similar to legacy traditional rear projection and front projection sets.

present singular third person volumes · participle present voluming · participle past volumed · past volumed · alternative abbreviation vol.

1. intransitiveTo be conveyed through the air, waft.

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

   1885, William Dean Howells, chapter 2, in The Rise of Silas Lapham

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   […] 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.

   1867, George Meredith, chapter 30, in Vittoria, volume 2, London: Chapman & Hall, page 258

2. transitiveTo cause to move through the air, waft.

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

   1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 33, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 219

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   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.

   1872, George Macdonald, chapter 15, in Wilfrid Cumbermede, volume I, London: Hurst & Blackett, page 243

   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.

   1900, Walter William Skeat, chapter 6, in Malay Magic, London: Macmillan, page 420

3. intransitiveTo swell.