Volume - Definition
volume
n 1: the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object;
"the gas expanded to twice its original volume"
2: 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" [syn: bulk,
mass, volume]
3: physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound
together; "he used a large book as a doorstop" [syn: book,
volume]
4: a publication that is one of a set of several similar
publications; "the third volume was missing"; "he asked for
the 1989 volume of the Annual Review"
5: a relative amount; "mix one volume of the solution with ten
volumes of water"
6: the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction);
"the kids played their music at full volume" [syn: volume,
loudness, intensity] [ant: softness]