volume
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
volume/ˈvɒljuːm/
▶noun
- 1 a book forming part of a work or series.
■ a single book or a bound collection of printed sheets.
■ a consecutive sequence of issues of a periodical.
■ historical a parchment or papyrus scroll.
- 2 the amount of space occupied by a substance or object, or enclosed within a container.
■ an amount or quantity, especially when great.
■ fullness of hair.
- 3 degree of loudness.
– origin ME: from OFr. volum(e), from L. volumen, volumin- ‘a roll’, from volvere ‘to roll’.
'volume' also found in these Oxford entries:
ABV
- acre-foot
- amplify
- apothecaries' measure
- atomic volume
- biomass
- blood count
- board foot
- Boyle's law
- bulk modulus
- calando
- capacity
- Charles's law
- collected
- compression
- compression ratio
- control
- cubature
- cubic
- displacement
- dry measure
- dynamic
- dynamics
- equation
- eudiometer
- expansion
- fade
- fader
- firkin
- fourth dimension
- gallon
- gas equation
- haematocrit
- hard core
- Henry's law
- Heptateuch
- hogshead
- hydraulic ram
- hypovolaemia
- illiquid
- liquid
- liquid measure
- litre
- loud
- omnibus
- partial pressure
- plethysmograph
- proof spirit
- pump
- shutter
