volume

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The drama recedes and the volume goes down.

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Quick take

the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object; "the gas expanded to twice its original volume"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of volume gathered in one view.

noun

the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object; "the gas expanded to twice its original volume"

noun

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"

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physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together; "he used a large book as a doorstop"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for volume.

noun

the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object; "the gas expanded to twice its original volume"

noun

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"

noun

physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together; "he used a large book as a doorstop"

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a publication that is one of a set of several similar publications; "the third volume was missing"; "he asked for the 1989 volume of the Annual Review"

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a relative amount; "mix one volume of the solution with ten volumes of water"

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the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction); "the kids played their music at full volume"

Example sentences

The drama recedes and the volume goes down.

This lets them launch a higher volume of games and help them get a foothold in mobile.

You might wonder "Well are we more risky than the same aggregate volume spread over N accounts?

On highly volatile days like today the combined volume exceeds 120M coins.

The iPad has a bigger battery than the 11" MacBook Air, despite the Air weighing 50% more and taking up 30% more volume.

All of that volatility comes on an average bitcoin volume of something like 20,000 per day.

There are 6 million bitcoins in existence, and trade volume is only about 54,000 according to the biggest exchange.

I've also had this procedure done to me, albeit in a lesser volume -- it's the same process used to perform bone marrow biopsies.

"Hachette failed to come to mutually agreeable terms with their largest retail partner by dollar and unit volume.

I know that was long, but this is one of the most important decisions that young people face and most go into it without enough information, so I felt it to be worth the volume of text.

According to the PA, someone named Janice needs to report to the ticket desk.- Mike has apparently set his cell phone ringer volume to "over 9000" and has placed it next to his mic.- "Can you see my screen?

That's a testament to the sheer volume of people who think that Microsoft's service offering is valuable enough to pay cold hard cash for, but it also, of course, goes straight to Microsoft's bottom line, to the tune of around a billion dollars per year.

Some of these words, like "measure" or "continuous" make some intuitive sense, but how can "measure" be "continuous" with respect to some other measure, and what the hell is Lebesgue measure anyway?Now, if you're a mathematician, you know that Lebesgue measure in simple cases is just a natural notion of area or volume, but you also know that it's very useful to be able to measure much more complicated sets than just rectangles, polyhedrals, balls, and other similar regular shapes.