Found 3 items, similar to VOLUME.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: volume isi, jilid, kelantangan
English → English (WordNet) Definition: volume volume n 1: the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object; “the gas expanded to twice its original volume” 2: 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” [syn: bulk, mass] 3: physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together; “he used a large book as a doorstop” [syn: book] 4: 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” 5: a relative amount; “mix one volume of the solution with ten volumes of water” 6: the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction); “the kids played their music at full volume” [syn: loudness, intensity] [ant: softness]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Volume 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.] [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] An odd volume of a set of books bears not the value of its proportion to the set. --Franklin. [1913 Webster] 4. Anything of a rounded or swelling form resembling a roll; a turn; a convolution; a coil. [1913 Webster] So glides some trodden serpent on the grass, And long behind wounded volume trails. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] Undulating billows rolling their silver volumes. --W. Irving. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 5. (Mus.) Amount, fullness, quantity, or caliber of voice or tone. [1913 Webster] 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 4[deg] C. as a standard) to the number of cubic centimeters occupied by one gram of the substance. [1913 Webster]