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English

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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volume (countable and uncountable, plural volumes)

  2. 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.
    • 1997, A. J. Taylor, D. S. Mothram, editors, Flavour Science: Recent Developments‎[2], Elsevier, →ISBN, page 63:
      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.
  4. Strength of sound: how loud it is.
    Synonym: loudness
    Coordinate terms: pitch, timbre, tone color
    Please turn down the volume on the stereo.
    Volume can be measured in decibels.
  5. 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.
  6. A bound book.
  7. A single book of a publication issued in multi-book format, such as an encyclopedia.
    The letter "G" was found in volume 4.
  8. (in the plural, by extension) A great amount (of meaning) about something.
  9. (historical) A roll or scroll, which was the form of ancient books.
    • 1985, David Goldstein, Hebrew Manuscript Painting‎[4], British Library, →ISBN, page 11, University of Michigan:
      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 (scrolls).
  10. Quantity.
    The volume of ticket sales decreased this week.
  11. A rounded mass or convolution.
  12. (economics) The total supply of money in circulation or, less frequently, total amount of credit extended, within a specified national market or worldwide.
  13. (computing) An accessible storage area with a single file system, typically resident on a single partition of a hard disk.
  14. (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
  15. (climbing, bouldering) A modular foothold attached to a climbing wall used for gripping, often in triangular, pyramidal, or angular shapes.
  16. (graph theory) The sum of the degrees of a set of vertices.
  17. (cinematography) 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.
  18. (cinematography) 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.

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See also

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cubic distance
sound

Verb

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volume (third-person singular simple present volumes, present participle voluming, simple past and past participle volumed)

  1. (intransitive) To be conveyed through the air, waft.
    • 1867, George Meredith, chapter 30, in Vittoria‎[5], volume 2, London: Chapman & Hall, page 258:
      […] 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.
    • 1885, William Dean Howells, chapter 2, in The Rise of Silas Lapham‎[6]:
      […] the Colonel, before he sat down, went about shutting the registers, through which a welding heat came voluming up from the furnace.
  2. (transitive) To cause to move through the air, waft.
    • 1872, George Macdonald, chapter 15, in Wilfrid Cumbermede‎[7], volume I, London: Hurst & Blackett, page 243:
      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.
    • 1900, Walter William Skeat, chapter 6, in Malay Magic‎[8], London: Macmillan, page 420:
      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.
    • 1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 33, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings‎[9], New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 219:
      The record player on the first floor volumed up Lonnie Johnson singing, “Tomorrow night, will you remember what you said tonight?”
  3. (intransitive) To swell.

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Noun

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volume m (plural volumes)

  1. volume

Dutch

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Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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Borrowed from Middle French volume, from Old French volume, from Latin volūmen.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˌvoːˈly.mə/
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  • Hyphenation: vo‧lu‧me

Noun

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volume n (plural volumen or volumes, diminutive volumetje n)

  1. volume (three-dimensional quantity of space)
  2. volume (sound level)
  3. (obsolete) volume, book (single book as an instalment in a series)

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Descendants

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  • → Indonesian: volumê

French

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin volūmen.

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volume m (plural volumes)

  1. volume (of a book, a written work)
  2. volume (sound)
  3. volume (amount of space something takes up)
  4. volume (amount; quantity)
  5. (figuratively) an overly long piece of writing

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Galician

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Etymology

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Latin volūmen
Old Galician-Portuguese volume
Galician volume

    Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese volume, from Latin volūmen (“a book, roll”).

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    • IPA(key): /bɔˈlume/ [bɔˈlu.mɪ]
    • Rhymes: -ume
    • Hyphenation: vo‧lu‧me

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    volume m (plural volumes)

    1. volume (quantity of space)
    2. volume (single book of a published work)

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    Indonesian

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    Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:
    Wikipedia id

    Etymology

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    Internationalism, borrowed from Dutch volume, from Middle French volume, from Old French volume, from Latin volūmen.[1]

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    volumê or volumé (plural volume-volume)

    1. volume
      1. (geometry) a three-dimensional measure of space that comprises a length, a width and a height
      2. loudness, strength of sound
      3. quantity
        Synonyms: banyaknya, besarnya, bobot, kuantitas
      4. a single book of a publication issued in multi-book format
        Synonym: jilid
      5. the issues of a periodical over a period of one year

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    References

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    1. ^ Nicoline van der Sijs (2010), Nederlandse woorden wereldwijd‎[1], Den Haag: Sdu Uitgevers, →ISBN, →OCLC

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    Italian

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    Etymology

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    From Latin volūmen.

    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /voˈlu.me/
    • Rhymes: -ume
    • Hyphenation: vo‧lù‧me
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    Noun

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    volume m (plural volumi)

    1. volume (clarification of this definition is needed)
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    Further reading

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    • “volume”, in Vocabolario Treccani on line (in Italian), Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2026

    Old French

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    Etymology

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    Borrowed from Latin volūmen (“a book, roll”).

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    volume m or f

    1. volume, specifically a collection of written works

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    Portuguese

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    Etymology

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    From Old Galician-Portuguese volume, borrowed from Latin volūmen.

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    volume m (plural volumes)

    1. (geometry) volume (unit of three-dimensional measure)
    2. volume; loudness (strength of sound)
    3. (publishing) volume (issues of a periodical over a period of one year)
    4. (publishing) volume (individual book of a publication issued as a set of books)
    5. (chiefly historical) volume (bound book)
    6. volume; quantity

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    Vietnamese

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    Etymology

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    From English volume (“strength of sound”).

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    volume (classifier cái)

    1. (informal) strength of sound of a device
      Vặn nhỏ (cái) volume lại.
      Turn down the sound volume.
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