Sekirov Dictionary

volume

UK /ˈvɒl.juːm/US /ˈvɑl.jum/

noun 16
verb 3
forms 3
phrases 1

noun16

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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.
- The room is 9×12×8, so its volume is 864 cubic feet.
- The proper products can improve your hair's volume.
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how loud or quiet a sound is
- Please turn down the volume on the stereo.
- Volume can be measured in decibels.
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Quantity.
- The volume of ticket sales decreased this week.
The total supply of money in circulation or, less frequently, total amount of credit extended, within a specified national market or worldwide.
The total of weight worked by a muscle in one training session, the weight of every single repetition summed up.
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A bound book.
- 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
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A single book of a publication issued in multi-book format, such as an encyclopedia.
- The letter "G" was found in volume 4.
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The issues of a periodical over a period of one year.
- I looked at this week's copy of the magazine. It was volume 23, issue 45.
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[in the plural] A great amount (of meaning) about something.
- 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
An accessible storage area with a single file system, typically resident on a single partition of a hard disk.
A green/blue-screen chromakey visual effects (“VFX”) sound stage surrounded by a multitude of filming cameras, to allow for virtual camera changes in post production, by filming the whole 3-D volume of a chromakey film set.
A sound stage film set that has walls of video monitors, substituting for an actual background, set structures, providing a changeable video matte painting. A set with a form of projected background, similar to legacy traditional rear projection and front projection sets.
A modular foothold attached to a climbing wall used for gripping, often in triangular, pyramidal, or angular shapes.
A rounded mass or convolution.
The sum of the degrees of a set of vertices.
(no longer used) A roll or scroll, which was the form of ancient books.

verb3

To swell.
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To be conveyed through the air, waft.
- […] 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
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To cause to move through the air, waft.
- 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

forms

volumed · voluming · volumes

Phrases with volume

turn up the volume on
To increase the intensity of; to focus on; to highlight or emphasize.

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