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The magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction)
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volume
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a book/volume/collection of poems ▪ She has a new collection of poems coming out soon. a book/volume/collection of poetry ▪ He had two books of poetry published. cranked up...volume ▪ We cranked up the volume . slim ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Volume \Vol"ume\, n. [F., from L. volumen a roll of writing, a book, volume, from volvere, volutum, to roll. See Voluble .] A roll; a scroll; a written document rolled up for keeping or for use, after the manner of the ancients. [Obs.] The papyrus, and ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object; "the gas expanded to twice its original volume" 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" ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A unit of 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. 2 Strength of sound. Measured in decibels. 3 The ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In the context of computer operating systems , a volume or logical drive is a single accessible storage area with a single file system , typically (though not necessarily) resident on a single partition of a hard disk . Although a volume might be different ...
Usage examples of volume.
The volume opens with the Normandy invasion, and Churchill recalls with evident admiration and relief the heroic landing of the redoubtable Allied armies as they effect the most remarkable amphibious operation in military history.
She had no amplifier, but no matter: there was time for volume later on.
Christa picked up Ceis and threw the volume knobs of her amplifier full on.
When the views entertained in this volume on the origin of species, or when analogous views are generally admitted, we can dimly foresee that there will be a considerable revolution in natural history.
To deal even remotely with all that is being said and done against Anarchism would necessitate the writing of a whole volume.
Chenon, now also passed away, was a faithful and discerning reader, whose vast culture gave his comments particular weight in my eyes, and I felt his anticipation of future volumes as a great compliment.
I had always lived a perfectly sheltered life back in Boston, with the antimacassars and the walnut furniture and the volumes of Emerson and Thoreau.
It was hard to follow them very far: the surrounding night crowded in on his ears with its competing antiphony of innumerable frogs and insects and small beasts of unimaginable variety, a background orchestration that you could forget entirely until you wanted to listen for something else and then it seemed to swell up into deafening volume.
He published the first collected volume of poetry by Opitz in Strasbourg in 1624 and an influential collection of proverbs and apothegms in 1626.
He could send me in among the Rotations and the stage crowd and the golfers and the arty types talking about statements of profiles rather than volumes and the musical.
The paper was first presented at an anthropological conference in 1975 and was to appear in a symposium volume.
These attenuated volumes of poetry in fancy bindings open their covers at one like so many little unfledged birds, and one does so long to drop a worm in,--a worm in the shape of a kind word for the poor fledgling!
But for that precaution I should not have been able to lay before the reader the autograph documents in my possession, and which I imagine form the most essential part of these volumes.
Before Mr Hawk had settled himself comfortably, Blotto was snoring with increased volume, so much so, in fact, that he woke up even himself.
The One-volume edition will be printed from a new fount of Brevier Ancient type, on toned paper, and will be the most compact and readable edition of Shakespeare ever issued in a single volume.