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volume
- /ˈvɒl.juːm/ UK
- /ˈvɒl.jʊm/ UK
- /ˈvɔljʉwm/ British, Southern, Standard
- /ˈvɑl.jum/ US
- /ˈvɑl.jəm/ US
- /ˈvɔljʉːm/ Australia
- /ˈvɔljʉm/ Northern Ireland, Scotland
- /ˈvɒlɪu̯m/
Rhymes with -ɒljuːm, -ɒljʊm
Where it comes from
From Middle English volume, from Old French volume, from Latin volūmen (“book, roll”), from volvō (“roll, turn about”).
noun volumes · vol.
- 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.
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Strength of sound: how loud it is.
Please turn down the volume on the stereo.
Similar: loudness
- 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.
- 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.
- A single book of a publication issued in multi-book format, such as an encyclopedia. The letter "G" was found in volume 4.
- A great amount (of meaning) about something. 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.
- A roll or scroll, which was the form of ancient books. The Bible comprises, according to Jewish tradition, 24 books in three major sections: the Pentateuch (Torah); Former and Latter Prophets, and Hagiographa (or writing). The last includes five books, Songs of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes and Esther which are called specifically megillot (sc
- Quantity. The volume of ticket sales decreased this week.
- A rounded mass or convolution.
- The total supply of money in circulation or, less frequently, total amount of credit extended, within a specified national market or worldwide.
- An accessible storage area with a single file system, typically resident on a single partition of a hard disk.
- The total of weight worked by a muscle in one training session, the weight of every single repetition summed up. (key muscle growth stimuli)
- A modular foothold attached to a climbing wall used for gripping, often in triangular, pyramidal, or angular shapes.
- The sum of the degrees of a set of vertices.
- 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.
- 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.
verb volumes · voluming · volumed · vol.
- 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.
- 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.
- To swell.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: loudness, book, mass, bulk, intensity, quantum, weight, density, potentiometer, volumetric, quantity, length, range, figure, throughput, digit
Translations
Every language
noun three-dimensional measure of space
| Español | volumen |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 체적 chejeok |
| 日本語 | 体積 taiseki |
| 中文 | 容積 /容积 róngjī, 體積 /体积 tǐjī |
| हिन्दी | आयतन āytan |
| Português | volume |
| Français | volume |
| Deutsch | Rauminhalt, Volumen |
| Italiano | volume |
| Ελληνικά | όγκος ógkos |
| Română | volum |
| Русский | объём obʺjóm |
| Tiếng Việt | thể tích, dung tích |
| العربية | حَجْم ḥajm |
| עברית | נֶפַח nefákh |
noun strength of sound
| Español | volumen, volumen sónico, volumen acústico |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 음량 eumnyang, 성량 seongnyang, 볼륨 bollyum |
| 日本語 | 音量 onryō, 声量 seiryō, ボリューム boryūmu |
| 中文 | 音量 yīnliàng, 響度 /响度 xiǎngdù |
| Português | volume |
| Français | volume |
| Deutsch | Lautstärke |
| Italiano | volume |
| Ελληνικά | ένταση éntasi |
| Română | volum |
| Русский | гро́мкость grómkostʹ |
| Tiếng Việt | âm lượng |
| العربية | جَهَارَة jahāra |
| עברית | עוצמת קול |
noun issues of a periodical over a period of one year
| Español | volumen |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 단행본 danhaengbon, 볼륨 bollyum |
| 日本語 | 単行本 tankōbon, ボリューム boryūmu |
| 中文 | 冊 /册 cè |
| Português | volume |
| Deutsch | Jahrgang |
| Italiano | volume |
| Ελληνικά | έτος étos, χρόνος chrónos |
| Русский | том tom, но́мер nómer, кни́га kníga |
| Tiếng Việt | quyển |
noun single book of a publication issued in multi-book format, such as an encyclopedia
| Español | volumen, volúmine |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 권 gwon |
| 日本語 | 巻 kan |
| 中文 | 卷 juàn |
| Português | volume, tomo |
| Français | volume, tome |
| Deutsch | Band |
| Italiano | volume |
| Ελληνικά | τόμος tómos |
| Русский | том tom, кни́га kníga, волю́м voljúm |
| Tiếng Việt | quyển, tập |
| العربية | مُجَلَّد mujallad, جُزْء juzʔ |
| עברית | כֶּרֶךְ kérekh |
noun roll or scroll, which was the form of ancient books
| Italiano | ruolo, rollo, rotolo |
|---|---|
| Русский | сви́ток svítok |
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@misc{volume_2026,
title = {volume},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/volume},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
