Definition of "volume"

volume

/ˈvɒl.juːm/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural volumes
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.
  Quotations
  Volatiles of kecap manis and its raw materials were extracted using Likens-Nickerson apparatus with diethyl ether as the extraction solvent. The extracts were then dried with anhydrous sodium sulfate, concentrated using a rotary evaporator followed by flushing using nitrogen until the volume was about 0.5 ml.
  1997, A. J. Taylor, D. S. Mothram, editors, Flavour Science: Recent Developments‎, Elsevier, page 63
2. Strength of sound; loudness.
3. The issues of a periodical over a period of one year.
4. A bound book.
  Quotations
  However, with the dainty volume my quondam friend sprang into fame. At the same time he cast off the chrysalis of a commonplace existence.
  1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd.
5. A single book of a publication issued in multi-book format, such as an encyclopedia.
6. (in the plural, by extension) A great amount (of meaning) about something.
  Quotations
  Ayesha wheeled round, and, pointing to the girl Ustane, said one word, and one only, but it was quite enough, for the tone in which it was said meant volumes.
  1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887
7. (obsolete) A roll or scroll, which was the form of ancient books.
8. Quantity.
9. A rounded mass or convolution.
10. (economics) The total supply of money in circulation or, less frequently, total amount of credit extended, within a specified national market or worldwide.
11. (computing) An accessible storage area with a single file system, typically resident on a single partition of a hard disk.
12. (bodybuilding) The total of weight worked by a muscle in one training session, the weight of every single repetition summed up.
verb
third-person singular simple present volumes, present participle voluming, simple past and past participle volumed
1. (intransitive) To be conveyed through the air, waft.
  Quotations
  […] thumping guns and pattering musket-shots, the long big boom of surgent hosts, and the muffled voluming and crash of storm-bells, proclaimed that the insurrection was hot.
  1867, George Meredith, chapter 30, in Vittoria‎, volume 2, London: Chapman & Hall, page 258
  […] the Colonel, before he sat down, went about shutting the registers, through which a welding heat came voluming up from the furnace.
  1885, William Dean Howells, chapter 2, in The Rise of Silas Lapham‎
2. (transitive) To cause to move through the air, waft.
  Quotations
  We lay leaning over the bows, now looking up at the mist blown in never-ending volumed sheets, now at the sail swelling in the wind before which it fled, and again down at the water through which our boat was ploughing its evanescent furrow.
  1872, George Macdonald, chapter 15, in Wilfrid Cumbermede‎, volume I, London: Hurst & Blackett, page 243
  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.
  1900, Walter William Skeat, chapter 6, in Malay Magic‎, London: Macmillan, page 420
  The record player on the first floor volumed up Lonnie Johnson singing, “Tomorrow night, will you remember what you said tonight?”
  1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 33, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings‎, New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 219
3. (intransitive) To swell.