# volume

Pronunciation: say "VOL-yoom" US /ˈvɑ.ljum/, UK /ˈvɒl.juːm/

## Noun

1. The strength or loudness of a sound.
   - Simple: How loud or quiet a sound is.
   - _She lowered the volume before the baby woke up._
   - _Sound engineers carefully balance the volume of each instrument._
2. An amount or quantity of something, especially a large one, such as goods sold, work done, or money in circulation.
   - Simple: An amount of something, often a large amount, such as how much is sold, done, or used.
   - _Online stores handle a huge volume of orders during the holidays._
   - _The volume of traffic on this road has grown each year._
3. The three-dimensional amount of space an object or region occupies, having length, width, and height and measured in cubic units.
   - Simple: The amount of space that something takes up.
   - _The volume of the container determines how much liquid it can hold._
   - _Engineers calculated the volume of concrete needed for the foundation._
4. A book, especially a large one, or one of the books that together make up a larger work or set.
   - Simple: A book, often one book in a set of books that belong together.
   - _The library keeps its rarest volumes in a locked glass case._
   - _She inherited a leather-bound volume of fairy tales._
5. A numbered set of a periodical's issues, usually those published in one year.
   - Simple: A numbered group of issues of a magazine or journal, usually all those published in one year.
   - _Researchers cited an article from volume 42 of the journal._
   - _The bound volume holds all twelve monthly issues._
6. The quality of being full or thick, especially in a person's hair, so that it looks full instead of lying flat.
   - Simple: Thickness or fullness, especially of hair, that makes it look full and not flat.
   - _Teasing the hair at the crown adds volume without much product._
   - _The mascara promises length and volume for thin lashes._
7. A great amount of meaning or significance about something, especially as conveyed without explicit statement.
   - Simple: A large amount of meaning about something, often shown without words.
   - _His refusal to comment spoke volumes about the scandal._
   - _The condition of the house spoke volumes about its former owners._
8. An accessible storage area with a single file system, usually located on one partition of a hard disk.
   - Simple: A part of a computer's storage that holds files together as one unit.
   - _The administrator formatted the volume before installing the system._
   - _Each volume on the server uses its own file system._
9. The total amount of weight training done for a muscle in a session or a week, usually found by multiplying sets, repetitions and load.
   - Simple: The total amount of lifting you do for a muscle in a workout or a week, counting sets, reps and weight.
   - _Coaches often raise weekly volume gradually to drive muscle growth._
   - _He calculates his volume by multiplying weight, sets, and reps together._

## Noun

10. A roll or scroll of written material, the form taken by books in the ancient world. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: A rolled-up sheet or scroll, the shape that books had long ago.

## Other meanings

- (noun) A rounded mass, or a coiled, folded convolution of something.
- (noun) A modular, often triangular or pyramidal block attached to a climbing wall and used as a foothold or grip.
- (noun) The total obtained by adding together the degrees of all the vertices in a chosen set.
- (verb) To swell or expand, growing greater in size.
- (verb) To cause something to move or waft through the air.
- (verb) To float through the air, as a scent or smoke does.

## Origin

Latin "volumen" ("book, roll"), built on "volvo" ("to roll, turn about"), passed into Old French as "volume," and Middle English borrowed it in that same form.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/volume (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).