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volume

noun

  1. single accessible storage area with a single file system, typically (though not necessarily) resident on a single partition of a drive; differs from a partition
  2. quantity of three-dimensional space
  3. amount of a security traded during a period of time
  4. book in a series, typically identified sequentially (e.g. Volume 3)
  5. portion of a compressed file
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈvɒl.juːm/ / /ˈvɒl.jʊm/ / /ˈvɔljʉwm/

noun

Etymology: From Middle English volume, from Old French volume, from Latin volūmen (“book, roll”), from volvō (“roll, turn about”).

  1. 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.”

  2. Strength of sound: how loud it is.

    “Please turn down the volume on the stereo.”

    “Volume can be measured in decibels.”

  3. 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.”

  4. 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.”

  5. A single book of a publication issued in multi-book format, such as an encyclopedia.

    “The letter "G" was found in volume 4.”

  6. 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.”

  7. A roll or scroll, which was the form of ancient books.
  8. Quantity.

    “The volume of ticket sales decreased this week.”

  9. A rounded mass or convolution.
  10. The total supply of money in circulation or, less frequently, total amount of credit extended, within a specified national market or worldwide.
  11. An accessible storage area with a single file system, typically resident on a single partition of a hard disk.
  12. The total of weight worked by a muscle in one training session, the weight of every single repetition summed up.

    “(key muscle growth stimuli)”

  13. A modular foothold attached to a climbing wall used for gripping, often in triangular, pyramidal, or angular shapes.
  14. The sum of the degrees of a set of vertices.
  15. 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.
  16. 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

Etymology: From Middle English volume, from Old French volume, from Latin volūmen (“book, roll”), from volvō (“roll, turn about”).

  1. 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.”

    “[…] the Colonel, before he sat down, went about shutting the registers, through which a welding heat came voluming up from the furnace.”

  2. 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.”

    “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.”

  3. To swell.