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US
/ˈvɑɫjum/
]
[ UK /vˈɒljuːm/ ]
[ UK /vˈɒljuːm/ ]
NOUN
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the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction)
the kids played their music at full volume -
physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together
he used a large book as a doorstop -
a relative amount
mix one volume of the solution with ten volumes of water -
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 property of something that is great in magnitude
it is cheaper to buy it in bulk
the volume of exports
he received a mass of correspondence -
the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object
the gas expanded to twice its original volume
How To Use volume In A Sentence
- It is just as well that this doubly weighty volume, which offers a lot of poems for the pound, tends to reward the effort it demands. The Times Literary Supplement
- The sheer volume is so overwhelming that the police cannot get on top of it. The Sun
- For example, some spectrophotometers can measure absorbance in sample volumes as low as one microliter. The Scientist
- Nevertheless, abbreviation pays off in having everything fit into a tight volume.
- These "Observations" were the first of a series of volumes by Gilpin on the scenery of Great Britain, composed in a poetic and somewhat over-luxuriant style, illustrated by drawings in aquatinta, and all described on the title page as "Relative chiefly to Picturesque Beauty. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
- Remember that there may technically be stronger drinks in the desert, but since ethanol is deliquescent, any such drinks would absorb water from the air to remain at most 96% by volume alcohol.
- With very few exceptions, however, Cabernet Sauvignon was left to command California's highest wine prices, Merlot to swell sales volumes.
- In 11 volumes published between 1888 and 1894, and many years later widely published in a condensed edition, the narrator's adventures in the London demimonde are narrated in such detail as ultimately to become tiresome rather than titillating. Deborah Lutz's "Pleasure Bound," on Victorian sex rebels
- Brother Jonathan," then just published by Blackwood in three large volumes, was read to him every night for weeks, and greatly to his satisfaction, as I then understood; though it seems by what Dr. Bowring -- I beg his pardon, Sir John Bowring -- says on the subject, that the "white-haired sage" was wide enough awake, on the whole, to form a pretty fair estimate of its unnaturalness and extravagance: being himself a great admirer of Richardson's ten-volume stories, like The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865
- The increased number of detectors and tube rotation times combine to give faster coverage of a given volume of tissue.
