Etymology : Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin volumen roll, scroll, from volvere to roll
Pronunciation : 'väl-y&m, -(")yü
Function : noun
Date : 14th century
1. book, book forming one of a series of books; capacity, bulk, displacement; degree of loudness; quantity, amount. volume\vol"ume\ , n. [f., from l. volumen a roll of writing, a book, volume, from volvere, volutum, to roll. see:
voluble.].
2. a roll; a scroll; a written document rolled up for keeping or for use, after the manner of the ancients. [obs.] the papyrus, and afterward the parchment, was joined together [by the ancients] to form one sheet, and then rolled upon a staff into a volume (volumen). brit.
3. hence, a collection of printed sheets bound together, whether containing a single work, or a part of a work, or more than one work; a book; a tome; especially, that part of an extended work which is bound up together in one cover; as, a work in four volumes. an odd volume of a set of books bears not the value of its proportion to the set.
4. anything of a rounded or swelling form resembling a roll; a turn; a convolution; a coil. so glides some trodden serpent on the grass, and long behind wounded volume trails. undulating billows rolling their silver volumes. irving.
5. dimensions; compass; space occupied, as measured by cubic units, that is, cubic inches, feet, yards, etc.; mass; bulk; as, the volume of an elephant's body; a volume of gas.
6. (mus.) amount, fullness, quantity, or caliber of voice or tone.
7. A roll; a scroll; a written document rolled up for keeping or for use, after the manner of the ancients.
8. Hence, a collection of printed sheets bound together, whether containing a single work, or a part of a work, or more than one work; a book; a tome; especially, that part of an extended work which is bound up together in one cover; as, a work in four volumes.
9. Anything of a rounded or swelling form resembling a roll; a turn; a convolution; a coil.
10. Dimensions; compass; space occupied, as measured by cubic units, that is, cubic inches, feet, yards, etc.; mass; bulk; as, the volume of an elephant's body; a volume of gas.
11. Amount, fullness, quantity, or caliber of voice or tone. the magnitude of sound ; "the kids played their music at full volume" a publication that is one of a set of several similar publications; "the third volume was missing"; "he asked for the 1989 volume of the Annual Review" the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object; "the gas expanded to twice its original volume" a relative amount; "mix one volume of the solution with ten volumes of water" Of or pertaining to voltaism, or voltaic electricity; as, voltaic induction; the voltaic arc.
12. Of or relating to Voltaire, the French author.
13. The theories or practice of Voltaire.
14. That form of electricity which is developed by the chemical action between metals and different liquids; voltaic electricity; also, the science which treats of this form of electricity; called also galvanism, from Galvani, on account of his experiments showing the remarkable influence of this agent on animals.
15. An instrument for m.
16. 1. The volume of something is the amount of it that there is. Senior officials will be discussing how the volume of sales might be reduced. the sheer volume of traffic and accidents.
17. The volume of an object is the amount of space that it contains or occupies. When egg whites are beaten they can rise to seven or eight times their original volume.
18. A volume is a book. a 125-page volume.
19. A volume is one book in a series of books. the first volume of his autobiography.
20. A volume is a collection of several issues of a magazine, for example all the issues for one year. bound volumes of the magazine.
21. The volume of a radio, television, or sound system is the loudness of the sound it produces. He turned down the volume He came to complain about the volume of the music.
22. If something such as an action speaks volumes about a person or thing, it gives you a lot of information about them. What you wear speaks volumes about you.