Category:Volume

Vol"ume, n. Etym: [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.] 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.

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. An odd volume of a set of books bears not the value of its proportion To the set. Franklin.

4. Anything of a rounded or swelling form resembling a roll; a turn; A convolution; a coil. So glides some trodden serpent on the grass, and long behind wounded Volume trails. Dryden. Undulating billows rolling their silver volumes. W. Irving.

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.

5. (mus.)

Defn: amount, fullness, quantity, or caliber of voice or tone. 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 4º c. as a standard) to the number of cubic centimeters Occupied by one gram of the substance.