volume
Meaning of volume
noun
- a book forming part of a work or series.
a biography of George Bernard Shaw in three volumes
a four-volume work
- the amount of space that a substance or object occupies, or that is enclosed within a container.
the sewer could not cope with the volume of rainwater
- quantity or power of sound; degree of loudness.
he turned the volume up on the radio
late Middle English (originally denoting a roll of parchment containing written matter): from Old French volum(e ), from Latin volumen, volumin- ‘a roll’, from volvere ‘to roll’. An obsolete meaning ‘size or extent (of a book)’ gave rise to volume (sense 2).
Information about volume
- It is a name.
- The plural form of volume is: volumes.
- Languages in which volume is used:
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GalicianHyphenation of volume
vol-ume
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- volume is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
volume synonyms
Meaning bulk:
Meaning book:
Meaning loudness:
Meaning the maximum amount that something can contain:
Meaning the relative extent of something; a thing's overall dimensions or magnitude; how big something is:
Meaning size:
Meaning the area covered by something:
Meaning a measurable extent of a particular kind, such as length, breadth, depth, or height:
Meaning a part, share, or number considered in comparative relation to a whole:
Meaning the size, length, or amount of something, as established by measuring:
Meaning vibrations that travel through the air or another medium and can be heard when they reach a person's or animal's ear:
Meaning the process of increasing the volume of sound, especially using an amplifier:
Translation of volume
- German: Lautstärke, Band, Volumen
- Spanish: intensidad, volumen, libro
- French: sonorité, intensité, volume, contenu
- Italian: volume, libro, contenuto, cubatura
- Portuguese: livro, tomo, volume
Words that rhyme with volume
Permalume, blume, Relume, relume, flume, glume, warklume, illume, reillume, Urolume, covolume, envolume, hypervolume, microvolume, multivolume, Plume, Silverplume, centiplume, corniplume, deplume, displume, emplume, filoplume, implume, overplume, pennoplume, plume, pulviplume, replume, semiplume, unplume
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