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Volume   /vˈɑljum/   Listen
Volume

noun
1.
The amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object.
2.
The property of something that is great in magnitude.  Synonyms: bulk, mass.  "He received a mass of correspondence" , "The volume of exports"
3.
Physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together.  Synonym: book.
4.
A publication that is one of a set of several similar publications.  "He asked for the 1989 volume of the Annual Review"
5.
A relative amount.
6.
The magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction).  Synonyms: intensity, loudness.  Antonym: softness.



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"Volume" Quotes from Famous Books



... reptile. Fancy giving one so downright an advantage as the first two bites, or even one bite, although I believe the thing does not in fact bite at all, but does one down with its forked tongue, of which there is an excellent drawing in my little volume, "Inquire Within; 1,000 ...
— Ruggles of Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson
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— Destruction and Reconstruction: - Personal Experiences of the Late War • Richard Taylor
... found himself gave ready indications of the character of its tenants. Tod's "Rajasthan" jostled a volume of the Badminton Library on the bookshelves, a copy of the Allahabad Pioneer lay beside the Field and the Times on the table, and many varieties of horns made trophies with quaint ...
— The Albert Gate Mystery - Being Further Adventures of Reginald Brett, Barrister Detective • Louis Tracy
... a very fine, large, and subtle volume might be composed on the canons of eavesdropping—when a man may listen, when he may not, and for how long he may, to what end, for what motives, in what causes, and on what provocations. It may be that the Roman Divines, who, as I understand, are greatly adept ...
— Simon Dale • Anthony Hope
... of being called a book should have an index. Is the index the same as the table of contents? The table of contents is printed at the beginning of the volume. It is a synopsis, by chapter headings or more detailed topics, of the plan of the book. It gives a general outline of the contents of the book. You are interested in public speaking. You wonder whether a book ...
— Public Speaking • Clarence Stratton


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