1 [U,C] the amount of space that an object or a substance fills; the amount of space that a container has:
How do you measure the volume of a gas? * jars of different volumes * Wait until the dough doubles in volume before kneading it again.
2 [C,U] the amount of sth:
the sheer volume (= large amount) of business * This work has grown in volume recently. * New roads are being built to cope with the increased volume of traffic. * Sales volumes fell 0.2% in June.
3 [U] the amount of sound that is produced by a television, radio, etc:
to turn the volume up / down * the volume control on the television
4 [C] (abbreviation vol.) a book, especially one that is part of a series of books:
an encyclopedia in 20 volumes
5 [C] (formal) a book:
a library of over 50000 volumes * a slim volume of poetry
6 [C] (abbreviation vol.) a series of different ISSUES of the same magazine, especially all the ISSUES for one year:
'New Scientist' volume 142, number 3
IDIOMS see SPEAK
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for volume is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is volume a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, volume is tagged as noun.
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