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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.

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The room is 9x12x8, so its volume is 864 cubic feet.

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Strength of sound; loudness.

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Please turn down the volume on the stereo.

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The issues of a periodical over a period of one year.

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I looked at this week's copy of the magazine. It was volume 23, issue 45.

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A bound book.

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A single book of a publication issued in multi-book format, such as an encyclopedia.

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The letter "G" was found in volume 4.

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A roll or scroll, which was the form of ancient books.

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Quantity.

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The volume of ticket sales decreased this week.

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A rounded mass or convolution.

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The total supply of money in circulation or, less frequently, total amount of credit extended, within a specified national market or worldwide.

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An accessible storage area with a single file system, typically resident on a single partition of a hard disk.

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To be conveyed through the air, waft.

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To cause to move through the air, waft.

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To swell.

Examples of volumes in a Sentence

The remaining three volumes appeared posthumously.

Yet his silence said volumes.

There is a public library, which was opened in 1871, and in 1909 had more than 20,000 volumes.

She went to one of her bookcases, searching the many leather bound volumes.

In 1907-1908 the university had 122 instructors, 1178 students and a library of 55,395 volumes.

Some of them are tracts of a few pages, others are works extending through several volumes.

The libraries of the city contain an aggregate of some 300,000 volumes.

The first three volumes of Treviranus's Biologie, which contains his general views of evolution, appeared between 1802 and 1805.

Further references of great value will be found in the works of Bateson and Pearson referred to above, and in the annual volumes of the Zoological Record, particularly under the head " General Subject."

With it are connected a school of engineering, a school of arts and industries and the famous library (about 300,000 printed volumes and 2000 MSS.) formerly belonging to the city.

The four principal ones have been published for the Pali Text Society, and some volumes have been translated into English or German.

These four Nikayas, sixteen volumes in all, are the main authorities for the doctrines of early Buddhism.

Of these, eleven volumes had by 1910 been edited for the Pali Text Society by various scholars, the Jatakas and two other treatises had appeared elsewhere, and two works (one a selection of lives of distinguished early Buddhists, and the other an ancient commentary), were still in MS.

Two volumes only of these, out of about twenty still extant in MS., have been edited for the Pali Text Society.

Only a few volumes, out of several hundreds known to be extant in MS., have yet been published.

The chemical laboratory in connexion with the school was, when first instituted, the only one in England for teaching purposes, and the museum is now reputed to be the best pharmaceutical one in the world, the library now containing about 13,000 volumes.

A complete edition of his dramatic works, edited by his friend and rival Tamayo y Baus, has been published in seven volumes (Madrid, 1881 - 1885).

His monumental Vergleichende Geographie, which was to have made the whole world its theme, died out in a wilderness of detail in twenty-one volumes before it had covered more of the earth's surface than Asia and a portion of Africa.

The change which took place during the 19th century in the substance and style of geography may be well seen by comparing the eight volumes of Malte-Brun's Geographic universelle (Paris, 1812-1829) with the twenty-one volumes of Reclus's Geographic universelle (Paris, 1876-1895).

His valuable work, the Description of Arabia, was published in 1772, and was followed in 1 774 - 1 77 8 by two volumes of travels in Asia.

Simmons library, with 59,300 volumes in 1908.

King, and published in six volumes (New York, 1894-1900).

These are always printed in the editions on the same page as the Mishnah and Gemara, the whole, with various other matter, filling generally about 12 folio volumes.

After Riccati's death his works were collected by his sons and published (1758) in four volumes.

The public library, founded in 1871, contains more than 100,000 volumes.

There are ten other libraries, the most important of which are the state law library (about 40,000 volumes) and the state library (about 46,000 volumes).

For the Italian nobility see the eight magnificent folio volumes of Count Pompeo Litta, Celebri famiglie italiane, continued by various editors (Milan, 1819-1907); for Spanish, Fernandez de Bethencourt, Hist.

He also wrote several literary articles for the first two volumes of the Encyclopaedia, and to the remaining volumes he contributed mathematical articles chiefly.

Arneth also published in 1893 two volumes of early reminiscences under the title of Aus meinem Leben.

Europe in respect of length, they are far behind them as regards the volumes of water which they discharge.

In compound working the combined volumes of the low-pressure cylinders is a measure of the power of the engine, since this represents the final volume of the steam used per stroke.

Many volumes containing accounts of such phenomena have been printed, and appeal is often made to the mass of evidence so accumulated.

It is these heavy rains, of brief duration, when great volumes of water rapidly run off from the barren slopes, that cause the deep channels, or arroyas, which cross the desert.

The Monumenta began to appear in 1826, and at the date of his resignation 24 volumes folio (Scriptores, Leges, Diplomata) had appeared.

Diogenes Laertius says that his works filled ten volumes, but of these fragments only remain.

A commission for publishing the whole of the letters and memoirs was appointed by Guizot in 1834, and the result has been the issue of nine volumes of the Papiers d'Etat du cardinal de Granvelle, edited by C. Weiss (Paris, 1841-1852).

The idea of writing memoirs was dismissed in favour of the more elaborate form, and in November 1855 the first two volumes of his uncompleted History of Philip II.

The royal lyceum, formerly a Jesuit college, contains notable collections and the royal library of over 300,000 volumes.

At this early period he seems already to have adopted in some degree the plan of study he followed in after life and recommended in his Essai sur l'etude - that is, of letting his subject rather than his author determine his course, of suspending the perusal of a book to reflect, and to compare the statements with those of other authors - so that he often read portions of many volumes while mastering one.

Of his admiration of Hume's style, of its nameless grace of simple elegance, he has left us a strong expression, when he tells us that it often compelled him to close the historian's volumes with a mixed sensation of delight and despair.

The volumes, however, were bought and read with silent avidity.

It was the author's original intention to complete this work in four volumes, but as the first volume was keenly attacked in Germany as well as in France, Fustel was forced in self-defence to recast the book entirely.

Thus, in six volumes, he had carried the work no farther than the Carolingian period.

It comprises seven large volumes and a geographical appendix; but the seventh volume, the history of the sultan Husain (1438-1505), together with a short account of some later events down to 1523, cannot have been written by Mirkhond himself, who died in 1498.

His thermochemical work was begun in 1853, but most of his experiments were performed in the years 1869-82, the whole being published collectively, under the title Thermochemische Untersuchungen, in four volumes.

Borlase's letters to Pope, St Aubyn and others, with answers, fill several volumes of MS. There are also MS. notes on Cornwall, and a complete unpublished treatise Concerning the Creation and Deluge.

The first ten volumes (1819-1824) were published under the joint editorship of Brewster and Jameson, the remaining four volumes (1825-1826) being edited by Jameson alone.

After parting company with Jameson, Brewster started the Edinburgh Journal of Science in 1824, sixteen volumes of which appeared under his editorship during the years 1824-1832, with very many articles from his own pen.

Connected with it are a library of 150,000 volumes and Boo MSS., a chemical laboratory, a zoological museum, a gynaecological institute, an ophthalmological school, a botanical garden and at Eldena (a seaside resort on the Baltic) an agricultural school.

Hill Burton, selections from his correspondence and a biography, were published by Dr Bowring, in eleven closely printed volumes (1838-1843).

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