Meaning of volume | Babel Free

Definitions

1. volume (a three-dimensional measure of space)
2. 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.
   countable, uncountable
3. Strength of sound: how loud it is.
   countable, uncountable
4. volume (a bound book)
5. speak volumes, to be expressive or full of meaning.
6. The issues of a periodical over a period of one year.
   countable, uncountable
7. volume (strength of sound)
8. A collection of written or printed sheets bound together; a book.
9. A bound book.
   countable, uncountable
10. A roll of parchment; a scroll.
11. A single book of a publication issued in multi-book format, such as an encyclopedia.
    countable, uncountable
12. Abbr. Va. The amount of space occupied by a three-dimensional object or region of space, expressed in cubic units.
13. A great amount (of meaning) about something.
    broadly, countable, in-plural, uncountable
14. Amount; quantity: a low volume of business; a considerable volume of lumber.
15. A roll or scroll, which was the form of ancient books.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
16. The amplitude or loudness of a sound.
17. Quantity.
    countable, uncountable
18. (Units) the magnitude of the three-dimensional space enclosed within or occupied by an object, geometric solid, etc. Symbol: V
    V
19. A rounded mass or convolution.
    countable, uncountable
20. a large mass or quantity: the volume of protest.
21. The total supply of money in circulation or, less frequently, total amount of credit extended, within a specified national market or worldwide.
    countable, uncountable
22. an amount or total: the volume of exports.
23. An accessible storage area with a single file system, typically resident on a single partition of a hard disk.
    countable, uncountable
24. (Music, other) fullness or intensity of tone or sound
25. The total of weight worked by a muscle in one training session, the weight of every single repetition summed up.
    countable, uncountable
26. A modular foothold attached to a climbing wall used for gripping, often in triangular, pyramidal, or angular shapes.
    countable, uncountable
27. The sum of the degrees of a set of vertices.
    countable, uncountable
28. 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.
    countable, uncountable
29. 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.
    countable, uncountable

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Examples

“The room is 9×12×8, so its volume is 864 cubic feet.”

“The proper products can improve your hair's volume.”

“Volatiles of kecap manis and its raw materials were extracted using Likens-Nickerson apparatus with diethyl ether as the extraction solvent. 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.”

“Please turn down the volume on the stereo.”

“Volume can be measured in decibels.”

“This is not only how we stop Trump; it’s how we stop the next one. So, Donald Trump, since I know you’re watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up.”

“I looked at this week's copy of the magazine. It was volume 23, issue 45.”

“However, with the dainty volume my quondam friend sprang into fame. At the same time he cast off the chrysalis of a commonplace existence.”

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

“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.”

“The volume of ticket sales decreased this week.”

“(key muscle growth stimuli)”

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