[
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
- The sheer volume is so overwhelming that the police cannot get on top of it. The Sun
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- The increased number of detectors and tube rotation times combine to give faster coverage of a given volume of tissue.
- Volumes of exchanges have been taking place over what some of these correspondents have called the militarisation of Haiti by international forces, many of the voices sounding off against it. TrinidadExpress Today's News
- Vibrations from instruments such as the talking drum or the didgeridoo, or even from foot-stomping dances, may have spoken volumes to distant, unshod listeners.
- In 1915 he published another volume of verse, Youth, which passed largely unregarded.
- The volume of trade has receded.
