'Volume' definitions:
Definition of 'volume'
(from WordNet)
noun
The amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object; "the gas expanded to twice its original volume"
noun
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" [syn: bulk, mass, volume]
noun
Physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together; "he used a large book as a doorstop" [syn: book, volume]
noun
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"
noun
A relative amount; "mix one volume of the solution with ten volumes of water"
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Definition of 'Volume'
From: GCIDE
- Volume \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.] [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- An odd volume of a set of books bears not the value of its proportion to the set. --Franklin. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Anything of a rounded or swelling form resembling a roll; a turn; a convolution; a coil. [1913 Webster]
- So glides some trodden serpent on the grass, And long behind wounded volume trails. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- Undulating billows rolling their silver volumes. --W. Irving. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Mus.) Amount, fullness, quantity, or caliber of voice or tone. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'volume'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abundance,
- accommodation,
- acreage,
- acres,
- aggregate,
- amount,
- amplitude,
- area,
- armful,
- article,
- back number,
- bagful,
- bags,
- barrelful,
- barrels,
- basketful,
- best seller,
- bigness,
- binful,
- body,
- book,
- bottleful,
- bound book,
- bowlful,
- breadth,
- bulk,
- burden,
- bushel,
- caliber,
- capacity,
- capful,
- caseful,
- chapter,
- classic,
- clause,
- collection,
- coloring book,
- column,
- content,
- continuum,
- copiousness,
- copy,
- cordage,
- countlessness,
- coverage,
- crescendo,
- definitive work,
- depth,
- diameter,
- dimension,
- dimensions,
- edition,
- emptiness,
- empty space,
- expanse,
- expansion,
- extension,
- extent,
- fascicle,
- field,
- flood,
- folio,
- fullness,
- galactic space,
- gauge,
- girth,
- great work,
- greatness,
- handful,
- hardback,
- height,
- impression,
- infinite space,
- installment,
- intensity,
- interstellar space,
- issue,
- juvenile,
- juvenile book,
- kettleful,
- lapful,
- largeness,
- length,
- library,
- library edition,
- limit,
- limp-cover book,
- livraison,
- load,
- loudishness,
- loudness,
- magnitude,
- magnum opus,
- mass,
- measure,
- measurement,
- mountain,
- mouthful,
- much,
- multitude,
- nonbook,
- notebook,
- nothingness,
- novel,
- number,
- numerousness,
- object,
- ocean,
- oceans,
- opus,
- opuscule,
- opusculum,
- outer space,
- paperback,
- paragraph,
- part,
- passage,
- peck,
- phrase,
- picture book,
- playbook,
- plenitude,
- plenty,
- pocket book,
- poundage,
- prayer book,
- printing,
- production,
- profusion,
- proportion,
- proportions,
- psalmbook,
- psalter,
- publication,
- quantities,
- quantity,
- radius,
- range,
- reach,
- room,
- scale,
- school edition,
- scope,
- sea,
- section,
- serial,
- series,
- set,
- size,
- sketchbook,
- soft-cover,
- songbook,
- sonority,
- sonorousness,
- space,
- spate,
- spatial extension,
- sphere,
- spread,
- standard work,
- storybook,
- stowage,
- sum total,
- superabundance,
- superficial extension,
- superfluity,
- supply,
- surface,
- surge,
- surge of sound,
- swell,
- swelling,
- title,
- tome,
- tonnage,
- tons,
- tract,
- trade book,
- trade edition,
- verse,
- void,
- width,
- work,
- world,
- worlds,
- writing