volume
/ˈvɒl.juːm/
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British/ˈvɔljʉwm/
volume noun: 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.
Noun
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 9×12×8, so its volume is 864 cubic feet.
- The proper products can improve your hair's volume.
- Strength of sound: how loud it is.
- Please turn down the volume on the stereo.
- Volume can be measured in decibels.
- Synonyms:
- 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.
- However, with the dainty volume my quondam friend sprang into fame. At the same time he cast off the chrysalis of a commonplace existence.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
- A single book of a publication issued in multi-book format, such as an encyclopedia.
- The letter "G" was found in volume 4.
- A great amount (of meaning) about something.
- 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.1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
- 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.
- The total supply of money in circulation or, less frequently, total amount of credit extended, within a specified national market or worldwide.
- An accessible storage area with a single file system, typically resident on a single partition of a hard disk.
- The total of weight worked by a muscle in one training session, the weight of every single repetition summed up.
- (key muscle growth stimuli)
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- A modular foothold attached to a climbing wall used for gripping, often in triangular, pyramidal, or angular shapes.
- The sum of the degrees of a set of vertices.
- A green/blue-screen chromakey visual effects (“VFX”) sound stage surrounded by a multitude of filming cameras, to allow for virtual camera changes in post production, by filming the whole 3-D volume of a chromakey film set.
- A sound stage film set that has walls of video monitors, substituting for an actual background, set structures, providing a changeable video matte painting. A set with a form of projected background, similar to legacy traditional rear projection and front projection sets.
Verb
volume (third-person singular simple present volumes, present participle voluming, simple past and past participle volumed)
- To be conveyed through the air, waft.
- […] 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.1867, George Meredith, chapter 30, in Vittoria, volume 2, London: Chapman & Hall, page 258
- […] the Colonel, before he sat down, went about shutting the registers, through which a welding heat came voluming up from the furnace.1885, William Dean Howells, chapter 2, in The Rise of Silas Lapham
- To cause to move through the air, waft.
- 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.1872, George Macdonald, chapter 15, in Wilfrid Cumbermede, volume I, London: Hurst & Blackett, page 243
- 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.1900, Walter William Skeat, chapter 6, in Malay Magic, London: Macmillan, page 420
- To swell.
volume meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
volume in Hindi
- three-dimensional measure of space
- आयतन āytan
volume in Tamil
- கன அளவு, கனவளவு, பருமன், புத்தகத்தொகுதி, புத்தகப்பகுதி, ஒலியளவு
volume in Marathi
- व्हॉल्यूम
volume in Urdu
- three-dimensional measure of space
- حَجْم hajm
- strength of sound
- آواز āvāz
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- volume in Bengali
- বালাম balam, আয়তন ayôtôn, খণ্ড khonḍo
- volume in Telugu
- ఘనపరిమాణం ghanaparimāṇaṁ, సంపుటి sampuṭi
- volume in Malayalam
- വ്യാപ്തം
- volume in Kannada
- ಕಡತ, ಹೊತ್ತಗೆ, ಗ್ರಂಥ, ಸಂಪುಟ
- volume in Punjabi
- ਜਿਲਦ jild
- volume in Gujarati
- વોલ્યુમ
- volume in Odia
- ଭଲିଉମ୍, ଆଯ଼ତନ, ଭଲିଉମ
- volume in Nepali
- भोल्युम, भल्युम, भल्युममा
- volume in Pashto
- حجم hojm
- volume in Tagalog
- buok
- volume in Arabic
- حَجْم ḥajm, جَهَارَة jahāra, مُجَلَّد mujallad, جُزْء juzʔ
- volume in Malay
- isipadu, kelantangan, jilid
- volume in Persian
- حجم hajm, صدا sedâ, دوره dowre, جلد jeld
- volume in Thai
- ปริมาตร bpà-rí-mâat, เล่ม lêm, ฉบับ chà-bàp, ความดัง kwaam-dang
- volume in Vietnamese
- thể tích, dung tích, quyển, âm lượng
- volume in Myanmar
- အတွဲ a.twai:
Examples of volume in a sentence
- 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.1997, A. J. Taylor, D. S. Mothram, editors, Flavour Science: Recent Developments, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 63:
- So, Donald Trump, since I know you’re watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up.2025 November 5, Zohran Mamdani, “The Full Transcript of Zohran Mamdani’s Victory Speech”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New...
- The record player on the first floor volumed up Lonnie Johnson singing, “Tomorrow night, will you remember what you said tonight?”1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 33, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 219:
Synonyms of volume
Forms of volume
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | volumes |
| alternative abbreviation | vol. |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | volumes |
| present participle | voluming |
| past participle | volumed |
| past | volumed |
Origin of volume
From Middle English volume, from Old French volume, from Latin volūmen (“book, roll”), from volvō (“roll, turn about”).
Words formed from volume
- alcohol by volume
- atomic volume
- biovolume
- bio-volume
- blood volume
- covolume
- co-volume
- diavolume
- eigenvolume
- eigen-volume
- envolume
- equivolume
- equi-volume
- euvolemia
- fractional volume
- Hubble volume
- hypervolume
- hyper-volume
- intervolume
- inter-volume
- isovolume
- iso-volume
- Local Volume
- lung volume
- magnetovolume
- magneto-volume
- microvolume
- micro-volume
- molar volume
- molecular volume
- multivolume
- multi-volume
- nonvolume
- non-volume
- normovolemia
- Planck volume
- pressure volume diagram
- residual volume
- sales volume
- shadow volume
- specific volume
- stroke volume
- subvolume
- sub-volume
- tidal volume
- turn up the volume on
- van der Waals volume
- volaemia
- volemia
- volume clutter
- volume CT
- volume defect
- volume integral
- volumeless
- volume-less
- volumer
- volume resistivity
- volume sales
- volumescope
- volume-scope
Phrases with volume
Questions about volume
- What does volume mean?
- Volume means 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.
- What is volume in Hindi?
- Volume in Hindi is आयतन (āytan). See Volume meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use volume in a sentence?
- 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.
- What part of speech is volume?
- Volume can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce volume?
- Volume is pronounced /ˈvɒl.juːm/ (UK).
- What is the plural of volume?
- The plural of volume is volumes.
Words near volume in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: volume (page history and authors); volume (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); volume (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); আয়তন (Bengali) (page history and authors); volume (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); volume (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਜਿਲਦ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); volume (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); volume (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); volume (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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