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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Volume \Vol"ume\, n. [F., from L. volumen a roll of writing, a
book, volume, from volvere, volutum, to roll. See Voluble.]
1. A roll; a scroll; a written document rolled up for keeping
or for use, after the manner of the ancients. [Obs.]
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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).
--Encyc. Brit.
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2. 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.
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An odd volume of a set of books bears not the value
of its proportion to the set. --Franklin.
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4. Anything of a rounded or swelling form resembling a roll;
a turn; a convolution; a coil.
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So glides some trodden serpent on the grass,
And long behind wounded volume trails. --Dryden.
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Undulating billows rolling their silver volumes.
--W. Irving.
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4. 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.
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5. (Mus.) Amount, fullness, quantity, or caliber of voice or
tone.
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Atomic volume, Molecular volume (Chem.), the ratio of the
atomic and molecular weights divided respectively by the
specific gravity of the substance in question.

Specific volume (Physics & Chem.), the quotient obtained by
dividing unity by the specific gravity; the reciprocal of
the specific gravity. It is equal (when the specific
gravity is referred to water at 4[deg] C. as a standard)
to the number of cubic centimeters occupied by one gram of
the substance.
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WordNet volume
n 1: the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object;
"the gas expanded to twice its original volume"
2: the property of something that is great in magnitude; "it is
cheaper to buy it in bulk"; "he received a mass of
correspondence"; "the volume of exports" [syn: bulk, mass]
3: physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound
together; "he used a large book as a doorstop" [syn: book]
4: 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"
5: a relative amount; "mix one volume of the solution with ten
volumes of water"
6: the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction);
"the kids played their music at full volume" [syn: loudness,
intensity] [ant: softness]

Moby Dictionary
abundance , accommodation , acreage , acres , aggregate , amount ,
amplitude , area , armful , article , back number , bagful , bags ,
barrelful , barrels , basketful , best seller , bigness , binful , body ,
book , bottleful , bound book , bowlful , breadth , bulk , burden ,
bushel , caliber , capacity , capful , caseful , chapter , classic ,
clause , collection , coloring book , column , content , continuum ,
copiousness , copy , cordage , countlessness , coverage , crescendo ,
definitive work , depth , diameter , dimension , dimensions , edition ,
emptiness , empty space , expanse , expansion , extension , extent ,
fascicle , field , flood , folio , fullness , galactic space , gauge ,
girth , great work , greatness , handful , hardback , height ,
impression , infinite space , installment , intensity ,
interstellar space , issue , juvenile , juvenile book , kettleful ,
lapful , largeness , length , library , library edition , limit ,
limp-cover book , livraison , load , loudishness , loudness , magnitude ,
magnum opus , mass , measure , measurement , mountain , mouthful , much ,
multitude , nonbook , notebook , nothingness , novel , number ,
numerousness , object , ocean , oceans , opus , opuscule , opusculum ,
outer space , paperback , paragraph , part , passage , peck , phrase ,
picture book , playbook , plenitude , plenty , pocket book , poundage ,
prayer book , printing , production , profusion , proportion ,
proportions , psalmbook , psalter , publication , quantities , quantity ,
radius , range , reach , room , scale , school edition , scope , sea ,
section , serial , series , set , size , sketchbook , soft-cover ,
songbook , sonority , sonorousness , space , spate , spatial extension ,
sphere , spread , standard work , storybook , stowage , sum total ,
superabundance , superficial extension , superfluity , supply ,
surface , surge , surge of sound , swell , swelling , title , tome ,
tonnage , tons , tract , trade book , trade edition , verse , void ,
width , work , world , worlds , writing