Definition of Volume

(n.)
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.
  

(n.)
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.
  

(n.)
Anything of a rounded or swelling form resembling a roll; a turn; a convolution; a coil.
  

(n.)
Amount, fullness, quantity, or caliber of voice or tone.
  

(n.)
A roll; a scroll; a written document rolled up for keeping or for use, after the manner of the ancients.
  

---

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.] 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). 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.
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. undulating billows rolling their silver volumes. 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.

---

  similar words(6) 

---

---

 volume unit 
 atomic volume 
 volume table of contents 
 molecular volume 
 specific volume 
 dollar volume 

toirt

www.interactiveselfstudy.com

---

Noun
1. the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object; "the gas expanded to twice its original volume"
(hypernym) measure, quantity, amount
(hyponym) capacity, content
(part-meronym) volume unit, capacity unit, capacity measure, cubage unit, cubic measure, cubic content unit, displacement unit, cubature unit
2. 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"
(synonym) bulk, mass
(hypernym) magnitude
(hyponym) dollar volume, turnover
3. physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together; "he used a large book as a doorstop"
(synonym) book
(hypernym) product, production
(hyponym) album
(part-meronym) binding, book binding, cover, back
4. 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"
(hypernym) publication
(member-holonym) set
5. a relative amount; "mix one volume of the solution with ten volumes of water"
(hypernym) measure, quantity, amount
6. the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction); "the kids played their music at full volume"
(synonym) loudness, intensity
(hypernym) sound property
(hyponym) crescendo
(attribute) loud

This is the daily number of shares of a security that change hands between a buyer and a seller.

the amount of product sales by brand, category, department or store. Can be measured in terms of pounds, units sold, or weight.

For options, the number of contracts that have been traded within a specific time period, usually a day or a week.

The number of futures contracts, calls, or puts traded in a day. Volume figures use the number of longs or shorts in a day, not both. Such figures are reported on the following day.

(V) 1. The amount of space an object takes up. 2. The amount of space a container can hold. The SI unit of volume is the cubic meter (m3); the liter is a popular unit of volume in chemistry.

A portion of data, with its physical storage medium, that can be handled conveniently as a unit. Note: An example of a volume is a "floppy" diskette.

A method of expressing the amplitude of a complex non-periodic signal such as speech.

The measurement, in cubic inches, cubic feet, etc., of the amount of space within a certain object or area. Also see displacement .

Under the ISO 9660 standard, a single CD-ROM disk.

This is a partition of a hard disk, or a reference to a complete hard disk. This term is used in many networks where there are shared disks.

See more at Wikipedia.org...

See more at Wikipedia.org...

The capacity of a ship in volume. See also grain and bale capacity.

The volume of the board determines its buoyancy and weight carrying ability. In non-planing conditions it is very important to have a board with sufficient volume.

Acronym of "Alcohol By Volume"
The same way as: A.V.

1) A popular term which loosely refers to the sound pressure level produced by a sound system at any given time. 2) The output gain setting of an amplifier.

mog'es (math., physics); ral'es (loudness)

v. muq