volume
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- vol. (abbreviation)
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English volume, from Old French volume, from Latin volūmen (“book, roll”), from volvō (“roll, turn about”).
PronunciationEdit
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈvɒl.juːm/, /ˈvɒl.jʊm/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈvɑ.ljum/, /ˈvɑ.ljəm/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɒljuːm, -ɒljʊm, -ɑljum, -ɑljəm
NounEdit
volume (countable and uncountable, plural volumes)
- 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.
- The proper products can improve your hair's volume.
- 1997, A. J. Taylor; D. S. Mothram, editors, Flavour Science: Recent Developments[2], 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.
- Strength of sound; loudness.
- 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.
- A bound book.
- 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:
- However, with the dainty volume my quondam friend sprang into fame. At the same time he cast off the chrysalis of a commonplace existence.
- A single book of a publication issued in multi-book format, such as an encyclopedia.
- The letter "G" was found in volume 4.
- (in the plural, by extension) A great amount (of meaning) about something.
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
- 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.
- (obsolete) A roll or scroll, which was the form of ancient books.
- Quantity.
- The volume of ticket sales decreased this week.
- A rounded mass or convolution.
- (economics) The total supply of money in circulation or, less frequently, total amount of credit extended, within a specified national market or worldwide.
- (computing) An accessible storage area with a single file system, typically resident on a single partition of a hard disk.
- (bodybuilding) The total of weight worked by a muscle in one training session, the weight of every single repetition summed up.
- (key muscle growth stimuli) Coordinate terms: mechanical tension, frequency
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See alsoEdit
- cubic distance
- Customary: ounce, pint, quart, gallons, cubic inch (in3), cubic foot, cubic yard, cubic mile
- Metric: mililiter, liter, cubic meter (m3), cubic centimeter ("cc") (cm3)
- sound
- Universal: bel, decibel
- Metric: millipascal (mPa)
VerbEdit
volume (third-person singular simple present volumes, present participle voluming, simple past and past participle volumed)
- (intransitive) To be conveyed through the air, waft.
- 1867, George Meredith, Vittoria, London: Chapman & Hall, Volume 2, Chapter 30, p. 258,[3]
- […] 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.
- 1885, William Dean Howells, chapter 2, in The Rise of Silas Lapham[4]:
- […] the Colonel, before he sat down, went about shutting the registers, through which a welding heat came voluming up from the furnace.
- 1867, George Meredith, Vittoria, London: Chapman & Hall, Volume 2, Chapter 30, p. 258,[3]
- (transitive) To cause to move through the air, waft.
- 1872, George Macdonald, Wilfrid Cumbermede, London: Hurst & Blackett Volume I, Chapter 15, p. 243,[5]
- 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,[6]
- 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,[7]
- The record player on the first floor volumed up Lonnie Johnson singing, “Tomorrow night, will you remember what you said tonight?”
- 1872, George Macdonald, Wilfrid Cumbermede, London: Hurst & Blackett Volume I, Chapter 15, p. 243,[5]
- (intransitive) To swell.
AsturianEdit
NounEdit
volume m (plural volumes)
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Middle French volume, from Old French volume, from Latin volūmen.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
volume n (plural volumen or volumes, diminutive volumetje n)
- volume (three-dimensional quantity of space)
- volume (sound level)
- (obsolete) volume, book (single book as an instalment in a series)
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → Indonesian: volumê
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
volume m (plural volumes)
- volume (of a book, a written work)
- volume (sound)
- volume (amount of space something takes up)
- volume (amount; quantity)
- (figuratively) an overly long piece of writing
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Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “volume”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
GalicianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin volūmen (“a book, roll”).
NounEdit
volume m (plural volumes)
IndonesianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Internationalism, borrowed from Dutch volume, from Middle French volume, from Old French volume, from Latin volūmen.[1]
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
volumê (plural volume-volume, first-person possessive volumeku, second-person possessive volumemu, third-person possessive volumenya)
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
Further readingEdit
- “volume” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
volume m (plural volumi)
- volume (clarification of this definition is needed)
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- volume in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Old FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin volūmen (“a book, roll”).
NounEdit
volume m or f
- volume, specifically a collection of written works
DescendantsEdit
PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Galician-Portuguese volume, borrowed from Latin volūmen.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
volume m (plural volumes)
- (geometry) volume (unit of three-dimensional measure)
- volume; loudness (strength of sound)
- (publishing) volume (issues of a periodical over a period of one year)
- (publishing) volume (individual book of a publication issued as a set of books)
- (chiefly historical) volume (bound book)
- volume; quantity
SynonymsEdit
- (single book of a set of books): tomo
- (quantity): quantidade, quantia