volume

Etymology

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

noun

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 9x12x8, 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. 1997, A. J. Taylor, D. S. Mothram, editors, Flavour Science: Recent Developments, Elsevier, page 63
2. Strength of sound; loudness.
   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.
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. (in the plural, by extension) A great amount (of meaning) about something.
7. (obsolete) 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. (economics) The total supply of money in circulation or, less frequently, total amount of credit extended, within a specified national market or worldwide.
11. (computing) An accessible storage area with a single file system, typically resident on a single partition of a hard disk.
12. (bodybuilding) The total of weight worked by a muscle in one training session, the weight of every single repetition summed up.
    (key muscle growth stimuli) Coordinate terms: mechanical tension, frequency

verb

1. (intransitive) 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
2. (transitive) 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
   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
3. (intransitive) To swell.