What does "volume" mean?
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.
Volume
/ˈvɑ.ljum/ noun, verb
noun, verb ·Common ·Middle school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: 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.
- Grammar: volume is listed as noun, verb.
- Nearest alternatives: a book, abundance, accommodation, acreage.
- Useful contrasts: flat shape, scientific journal, swedish droppe.
- Usage evidence: The radio is too loud. Turn the volume down.
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Definitions
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. countable, uncountable
"The room is 9×12×8, so its volume is 864 cubic feet."
- 2 physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together wordnet
- 3 Strength of sound: how loud it is. countable, uncountable
"Please turn down the volume on the stereo."
- 4 the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction) wordnet
- 5 The issues of a periodical over a period of one year. countable, uncountable
"I looked at this week's copy of the magazine. It was volume 23, issue 45."
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- 6 the property of something that is great in magnitude wordnet
- 7 A bound book. countable, uncountable
"However, with the dainty volume my quondam friend sprang into fame. At the same time he cast off the chrysalis of a commonplace existence."
- 8 a publication that is one of a set of several similar publications wordnet
- 9 A single book of a publication issued in multi-book format, such as an encyclopedia. countable, uncountable
"The letter "G" was found in volume 4."
- 10 the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object wordnet
- 11 A great amount (of meaning) about something. broadly, countable, in-plural, uncountable
"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."
- 12 a relative amount wordnet
- 13 A roll or scroll, which was the form of ancient books. countable, obsolete, uncountable
- 14 Quantity. countable, uncountable
"The volume of ticket sales decreased this week."
- 15 A rounded mass or convolution. countable, uncountable
- 16 The total supply of money in circulation or, less frequently, total amount of credit extended, within a specified national market or worldwide. countable, uncountable
- 17 An accessible storage area with a single file system, typically resident on a single partition of a hard disk. countable, uncountable
- 18 The total of weight worked by a muscle in one training session, the weight of every single repetition summed up. countable, uncountable
"(key muscle growth stimuli)"
- 19 A modular foothold attached to a climbing wall used for gripping, often in triangular, pyramidal, or angular shapes. countable, uncountable
- 20 The sum of the degrees of a set of vertices. countable, uncountable
- 21 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
- 22 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
Verb
- 1 To be conveyed through the air, waft. intransitive
"[…] 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."
- 2 To cause to move through the air, waft. transitive
"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."
- 3 To swell. intransitive
Synonyms
All synonymsAntonyms
flat shapescientific journalswedish droppemore planetary surface
Example
"The radio is too loud. Turn the volume down."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "volume"?
Common synonyms include: a book, abundance, accommodation, acreage, acres, adjust volume.
How do you use "volume" in a sentence?
The radio is too loud. Turn the volume down.
How do you pronounce "volume"?
Pronounced /ˈvɑ.ljum/.
Etymology
From Middle English volume, from Old French volume, from Latin volūmen (“book, roll”), from volvō (“roll, turn about”).