[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

volume \vol"ume\, n. f., from l. volumen a roll of writing, a
   book, volume, from volvere, volutum, to roll. see voluble.
   1. a roll; a scroll; a written document rolled up for keeping
      or for use, after the manner of the ancients. obs.
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            the papyrus, and afterward the parchment, was joined
            together by the ancients to form one sheet, and
            then rolled upon a staff into a volume volumen.
                                                  --encyc. brit.
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   2. hence, a collection of printed sheets bound together,
      whether containing a single work, or a part of a work, or
      more than one work; a book; a tome; especially, that part
      of an extended work which is bound up together in one
      cover; as, a work in four volumes.
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            an odd volume of a set of books bears not the value
            of its proportion to the set.         --franklin.
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   4. anything of a rounded or swelling form resembling a roll;
      a turn; a convolution; a coil.
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            so glides some trodden serpent on the grass,
            and long behind wounded volume trails. --dryden.
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            undulating billows rolling their silver volumes.
                                                  --w. irving.
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   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.
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   5. mus. amount, fullness, quantity, or caliber of voice or
      tone.
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   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 4deg c. as a standard
      to the number of cubic centimeters occupied by one gram of
      the substance.
      1913 webster
see also:
voluble atomic volume molecular volume specific volume 

Volume >> V Words
Volume, definition of term: Volume
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Molecular >> M Words
Molecular, definition of term: Molecular
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Molecular Weigh >> M Words
Molecular Weigh, definition of term: Molecular Weigh
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Molecular Formu >> M Words
Molecular Formu, definition of term: Molecular Formu
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Molecular Biolo >> M Words
Molecular Biolo, definition of term: Molecular Biolo
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Specific Volume >> S Words
Specific Volume, definition of term: Specific Volume
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Atomic Volume >> A Words
Atomic Volume, definition of term: Atomic Volume
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