Volume
['vɒljuːm] or ['vɑljum]
Definition
(noun.) the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction); 'the kids played their music at full 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.) the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object; 'the gas expanded to twice its original volume'.
(noun.) a relative amount; 'mix one volume of the solution with ten volumes of water'.
Edited by Julius--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A roll; a scroll; a written document rolled up for keeping or for use, after the manner of the ancients.
(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.) Anything of a rounded or swelling form resembling a roll; a turn; a convolution; a coil.
(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.) Amount, fullness, quantity, or caliber of voice or tone.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Convolution, turn, contortion, whirl, fold, coil, roll, scroll.[2]. Book, tome.[3]. Dimensions, bulk, size, mass, compass, amplitude, CAPACITY.[4]. (Geom.) Solid contents.
Checker: Sumner
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Size, body, bulk, dimensions, book, work, tome, capacity, magnitude, compass,quantity
ANT:diminutiveness, tenuity, minuteness, smallness
Checked by Archie
Definition
n. a roll or scroll which was the form of ancient books: a book whether complete in itself or part of a work: a rounded mass convolution: cubical content: a quantity: dimensions: fullness of voice.—v.i. to swell.—adj. Vol′umed having the form of a volume or roll: of volume or bulk.—ns. Volumenom′eter an instrument for measuring the volume of a solid body by the quantity of fluid it displaces; Vol′umēter an instrument for measuring the volumes of gases.—adjs. Volumet′ric -al.—adv. Volumet′rically.—adjs. Volū′minal pertaining to cubical content; Volū′minous consisting of many volumes or books or of many coils: of great bulk: having written much as an author: in many volumes capable of filling many volumes.—adv. Volū′minously.—ns. Volū′minousness Voluminos′ity; Vol′ūmist (rare) an author.—Volumetric analysis the analysis of a compound by determining the quantity of a standard solution required to satisfy a reaction in a known quantity of the compound.—Speak Tell volumes to mean much to be very significant.
Edited by Jonathan
Examples
- Rivers and pipes have their metres, so that now the velocity and volume of rivers and streams are measured and controlled, and floods prevented. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Here's a burial volume, just the thing! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Gay-Lussac found that two volumes of h ydrogen combined with one volume of oxygen to produce two volumes of water vapor. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- She hesitated for a moment, holding the little volume fondly in her hands--then lifted it to her lips and kissed it. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The first volume, as well as a portion of the second, was written before I had reason to suppose I was in a critical condition of health. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- One edition passes into another, and that into a third, and so on, till we come to that volume we peruse at present. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- An incident of evaporation is the passing from the limited volume of a liquid to the greatly increased volume of a gas. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Just thirty years later, on a similar trip over the same ground, he jotted down for this volume some of his reminiscences. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Each volume brought a remembrance or a suggestion of his dead friend. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Some of the stories were told for this volume. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- As the din of the drum rose to almost deafening volume Kerchak sprang into the open space between the squatting males and the drummers. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- At this present time, he is seated at the table, making notes from a volume of the family library he has been reading. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I should be quarrelling with all my new books, said Mary, lifting the volume on the table. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Mix, and add one-half its volume of pure coal-tar and boil to a fluid mass. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Though the workmen were now growing more weary and disheartened with each new volume they undertook, Gutenberg would not give up. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Gay-Lussac found that two volumes of h ydrogen combined with one volume of oxygen to produce two volumes of water vapor. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Volumes of letters and portfolios of testimonials, if you like! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- All those rows of volumes--will you not now do what you used to speak of? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- To every right-feeling person of my own sex, volumes could say no more. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Of the eight volumes already issued, each containing about 350 closely printed pages for half-a-crown, nearly 170,000 copies have been sold within a period of less than three years. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Nearly 300,000 volumes have already been printed of this edition. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Two letters have passed between these parties, letters which are admitted to be in the handwriting of the defendant, and which speak volumes, indeed. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The number of volumes at this time in the imperial library was increased, we are told, to 54,000. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Burton's Historical Collections_; they were small chapmen's books, and cheap, 40 volumes in all. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The account of the French taxes, which takes up three volumes in quarto, may be regarded as perfectly authentic. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Air has usually been held to consist of four volumes of nitrogen and one volume of oxygen, with a very small proportion of carbonic acid gas and ammonia. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- But what volumes of meaning in them! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Their most trivial action may mean volumes, or their most extraordinary conduct may depend upon a hairpin or a curling tongs. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The Marxian paraphernalia crowds three heavy volumes, so elaborate and difficult that socialists rarely read them. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- My uncle Benjamin, too, approved of it, and proposed to give me his shorthand volumes of sermons to set up with, if I would learn shorthand. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
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