Volume
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[1913 Webster] So glides some trodden serpent on the grass, And long behind wounded volume trails. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] Undulating billows rolling their silver volumes. --W. Irving. [1913 Webster] 4. 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. [1913 Webster] 5. (Mus.) Amount, fullness, quantity, or caliber of voice or tone. [1913 Webster] Atomic volume, Molecular volume (Chem.), the ratio of the atomic and molecular weights divided respectively by the specific gravity of the substance in question. Specific volume (Physics & Chem.), the quotient obtained by dividing unity by the specific gravity; the reciprocal of the specific gravity. It is equal (when the specific gravity is referred to water at 4[deg] C. as a standard) to the number of cubic centimeters occupied by one gram of the substance. [1913 Webster]  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]  volume Volumen  volume [vɔljuːm] Band; Inhalt; Jahrgang; Volumen; Volumen [math.]  volume [vɔljuːm] volume  volume hangerô könyv kötet nagymennyiség térfogat tömeg ûrtartalom  volume tomo, volume  volume [vɔljuːm] geluidssterkte; inhoud; volume band; deel; boekdeel; volume  volume [vɔljuːm] tomo, volume  volume [vɔljuːm] tomo  volume [vɔljuːm] volym  volume [volym] Volumen  volume [volym] volume  volume [volym] capaciteit; inhoud inhoud geluidssterkte; inhoud; volume  volume Band; Volumen  volume [volymə] Volumen Band; Volumen  volume [volymə] volume  volume [volymə] volume  volume Band; Volumen  volume volume  vol. 1. 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(kıs.) verb, versus, vide, volt, volume, von.  volume (of a book) Band m; Jahrgang m (eines Buches) volume Buchband n volume Inhalt m volume Volumen n [math.] volume Volumen n; Rauminhalt m volume : vol Band (Buch) : Bd.  186 Moby Thesaurus words for "volume": abundance, accommodation, acreage, acres, aggregate, amount, amplitude, area, armful, article, back number, bagful, bags, barrelful, barrels, basketful, best seller, bigness, binful, body, book, bottleful, bound book, bowlful, breadth, bulk, burden, bushel, caliber, capacity, capful, caseful, chapter, classic, clause, collection, coloring book, column, content, continuum, copiousness, copy, cordage, countlessness, coverage, crescendo, definitive work, depth, diameter, dimension, dimensions, edition, emptiness, empty space, expanse, expansion, extension, extent, fascicle, field, flood, folio, fullness, galactic space, gauge, girth, great work, greatness, handful, hardback, height, impression, infinite space, installment, intensity, interstellar space, issue, juvenile, juvenile book, kettleful, lapful, largeness, length, library, library edition, limit, limp-cover book, livraison, load, loudishness, loudness, magnitude, magnum opus, mass, measure, measurement, mountain, mouthful, much, multitude, nonbook, notebook, nothingness, novel, number, numerousness, object, ocean, oceans, opus, opuscule, opusculum, outer space, paperback, paragraph, part, passage, peck, phrase, picture book, playbook, plenitude, plenty, pocket book, poundage, prayer book, printing, production, profusion, proportion, proportions, psalmbook, psalter, publication, quantities, quantity, radius, range, reach, room, scale, school edition, scope, sea, section, serial, series, set, size, sketchbook, soft-cover, songbook, sonority, sonorousness, space, spate, spatial extension, sphere, spread, standard work, storybook, stowage, sum total, superabundance, superficial extension, superfluity, supply, surface, surge, surge of sound, swell, swelling, title, tome, tonnage, tons, tract, trade book, trade edition, verse, void, width, work, world, worlds, writing Volume related |
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