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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A collection of written or printed sheets bound together; a book.
  • n. One of the books of a work printed and bound in more than one book.
  • n. A series of issues of a periodical, usually covering one calendar year.
  • n. A unit of written material assembled together and cataloged in a library.
  • n. A roll of parchment; a scroll.
  • n. The amount of space occupied by a three-dimensional object or region of space, expressed in cubic units.
  • n. The capacity of such a region or of a specified container, expressed in cubic units.
  • n. Amount; quantity: a low volume of business; a considerable volume of lumber.
  • n. A large amount. Often used in the plural: volumes of praise.
  • n. The amplitude or loudness of a sound.
  • n. A control, as on a radio, for adjusting amplitude or loudness.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A unit of 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.
  • n. Strength of sound. Measured in decibels.
  • n. The issues of a periodical over a period of one year.
  • n. A single book of a publication issued in multi-book format, such as an encyclopedia.
  • n. Quantity.
  • n. The total supply of money in circulation or, less frequently, total amount of credit extended, within a specified national market or worldwide.
  • n. An accessible storage area with a single file system, typically resident on a single partition of a hard disk.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A roll; a scroll; a written document rolled up for keeping or for use, after the manner of the ancients.
  • n. Hence, a collection of printed sheets bound together, whether containing a single work, or a part of a work, or more than one work; a book; a tome; especially, that part of an extended work which is bound up together in one cover.
  • n. Anything of a rounded or swelling form resembling a roll; a turn; a convolution; a coil.
  • n. Dimensions; compass; space occupied, as measured by cubic units, that is, cubic inches, feet, yards, etc.; mass; bulk.
  • n. Amount, fullness, quantity, or caliber of voice or tone.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A measure of the relative quantity of a substance as determined by its bulk.
  • n. A written document (as of parchment, papyrus, or strips of bark) rolled up in a convenient form for keeping or use, such being anciently the prevailing form of the book; a roll; a scroll. The written sheets were usually wound around a stick, termed an umbilicus, the extremities of which were called the cornua, to which a label containing the name of the author was tied. The whole was placed in a wrapper, and frequently anointed with oil of cedarwood as a preservative against insects.
  • n. Hence2. A collection of written or printed sheets bound together, whether containing a single complete work, a part of a work, or more than one separate work; a book; a tome: as, a large volume; a work in six volumes.
  • n. Something of a roll-like, rounded, or swelling form; a rounded mass; a coil; a convolution; a wreath; a fold: as, volumes of smoke.
  • n. An amount or measure of tridimensional space; solid contents; hence, an amount or aggregated quantity of any kind.
  • n. In music, quantity, fullness, or roundness of tone or sound.
  • To swell; rise in bulk or volume.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a publication that is one of a set of several similar publications
  • n. physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together
  • n. the property of something that is great in magnitude
  • n. the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object
  • n. the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction)
  • n. a relative amount
  • Equivalent
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    publication    amount    measure    quantity   
    Form
    voluminous   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    roll    scroll    book    tome    turn    convolution    coil    dimensions    compass    mass   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    book    collection    number    amount    page    edition    production    flow    rate    chapter