About The Word Volume
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Volume Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Volume?
[n] physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together; "he used a large book as a doorstop"
[n] the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction); "the kids played their music at full volume" [n] the property of something that is great in magnitude; "it is cheaper to buy it in bulk"; "he received a mass of correspondence"; "the volume of exports" [n] 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" [n] the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object; "the gas expanded to twice its original volume" [n] a relative amount; "mix one volume of the solution with ten volumes of water" Synonyms | Synonyms for Volume: book | bulk | intensity | loudness | mass Related Terms | Find terms related to Volume: See Also | album | amount | back | binding | book binding | capacity | capacity measure | capacity unit | coffee-table book | content | cover | crescendo | cubage unit | cubature unit | cubic content unit | cubic measure | displacement unit | dollar volume | folio | forte | fortissimo | hardback | hardcover | journal | magnitude | measure | notebook | novel | order book | paperback | paperback book | picture book | product | production | publication | quantity | quantum | set | sketch pad | sketchblock | sketchbook | softback | softback book | soft-cover | soft-cover book | sound property | turnover | volume unit Volume In Webster's Dictionary \Vol"ume\, n. [F., from L. volumen a roll of writing, a
book, volume, from volvere, volutum, to roll. See {Voluble}.]
1. A roll; a scroll; a written document rolled up for keeping
or for use, after the manner of the ancients. [Obs.]
The papyrus, and afterward the parchment, was joined
together [by the ancients] to form one sheet, and
then rolled upon a staff into a volume (volumen).
--Encyc. Brit.
2. Hence, a collection of printed sheets bound together,
whether containing a single work, or a part of a work, or
more than one work; a book; a tome; especially, that part
of an extended work which is bound up together in one
cover; as, a work in four volumes.
An odd volume of a set of books bears not the value
of its proportion to the set. --Franklin.
4. Anything of a rounded or swelling form resembling a roll;
a turn; a convolution; a coil.
So glides some trodden serpent on the grass, And
long behind wounded volume trails. --Dryden.
Undulating billows rolling their silver volumes.
--W. Irving.
4. Dimensions; compass; space occupied, as measured by cubic
units, that is, cubic inches, feet, yards, etc.; mass;
bulk; as, the volume of an elephant's body; a volume of
gas.
5. (Mus.) Amount, fullness, quantity, or caliber of voice or
tone.
{Atomic volume}, {Molecular volume} (Chem.), the ratio of the
atomic and molecular weights divided respectively by the
specific gravity of the substance in question.
{Specific volume} (Physics & Chem.), the quotient obtained by
dividing unity by the specific gravity; the reciprocal of
the specific gravity. It is equal (when the specific
gravity is referred to water at 4[deg] C. as a standard)
to the number of cubic centimeters occupied by one gram of
the substance.
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