volume

UK /ˈvɒl.juːm/ US /ˈvɑ.ljum/
noun 5verb 3

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.

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.

verb

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.

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