volume
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EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- vol. (abbreviation)
EtymologyEdit
From Old French volume, from Latin volūmen (“book, roll”), from volvō (“roll, turn about”).
PronunciationEdit
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.
- Strength of sound. Measured in decibels.
- Please turn down the volume on the stereo.
- 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.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 1, in The Celebrity:
- 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.
- Quantity.
- The volume of ticket sales decreased this week.
- (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.
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
unit of three dimensional measure that consists of a length, a width and a height
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strength of sound
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issues of a periodical over a period of one year
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single book of a publication issued in multi-book format, such as an encyclopedia
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synonym for quantity
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See alsoEdit
- cubic distance
- Customary: ounces, pints, quarts, gallons, cubic inches (in3), cubic feet, cubic yards, cubic miles
- Metric: mililiters, liters, cubic meters (m3), cubic centimeters ("cc") (cm3)
- sound
- Universal: bels, decibels
- Metric: millipascals (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,[1]
- […] 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.
- 1884, William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham, Chapter 2,[2]
- […] 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,[1]
- (transitive) To cause to move through the air, waft.
- 1872, George Macdonald, Wilfrid Cumbermede, London: Hurst & Blackett Volume I, Chapter 15, p. 243,[3]
- 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,[4]
- 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,[5]
- 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,[3]
AsturianEdit
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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
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “volume” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
GalicianEdit
ItalianEdit
Old FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin volūmen (“a book, roll”).
NounEdit
volume m, f
- volume, specifically a collection of written works
DescendantsEdit
PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old 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