Volume

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1. Noun

A roll; a scroll; a written document rolled up for keeping or for use, after the manner of the ancients.

2. Noun

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; as, a work in four volumes.

3. Noun

Anything of a rounded or swelling form resembling a roll; a turn; a convolution; a coil.

4. Noun

Dimensions; compass; space occupied, as measured by cubic units, that is, cubic inches, feet, yards, etc.; mass; bulk; as, the volume of an elephant's body; a volume of gas.

5. Noun

Amount, fullness, quantity, or caliber of voice or tone.

6. Noun

The amount of space occupied by a three-dimensional object

7. Noun

the property of something that is great in magnitude; "it is cheaper to buy it in bulk"; "he received a mass of correspondence"; "the volume of exports"
Vocabulary classified under Academic vocabulary

8. Noun

physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together; "he used a large book as a doorstop"
Vocabulary classified under Economics
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