volume

Forms

1.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 proper products can improve your hair's volume.
- The room is 9×12×8, so its volume is 864 cubic feet.
2.Strength of sound: how loud it is.
- Volume can be measured in decibels.
- Please turn down the volume on the stereo.
- This is not only how we stop Trump; it’s how we stop the next one. So, Donald Trump, since I know you’re watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up.
3.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.
4.A bound book.
- However, with the dainty volume my quondam friend sprang into fame. At the same time he cast off the chrysalis of a commonplace existence.

1.To be conveyed through the air, waft.
2.To cause to move through the air, waft.
- The record player on the first floor volumed up Lonnie Johnson singing, “Tomorrow night, will you remember what you said tonight?”
- 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.

Common· #1499

From Middle English volume

From Old French volume

From Latin volūmen (“book, roll”)

From volvō (“roll, turn about”).