volume

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.countableuncountable

• The room is 9×12×8, so its volume is 864 cubic feet.
• The proper products can improve your hair's volume.

Strength of sound: how loud it is.countableuncountable

• Please turn down the volume on the stereo.
• Volume can be measured in decibels.

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

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

A bound book.countableuncountable

• However, with the dainty volume my quondam friend sprang into fame. At the same time he cast off the chrysalis of a commonplace existence.

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

• The letter "G" was found in volume 4.

A great amount (of meaning) about something.broadlycountablein-plural

• Ayesha wheeled round, and, pointing to the girl Ustane, said one word, and one only, but it was quite enough, for the tone in which it was said meant volumes.

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

• The Bible comprises, according to Jewish tradition, 24 books in three major sections: the Pentateuch (Torah); Former and Latter Prophets, and Hagiographa (or writing). The last includes five books, Songs of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Eccles

Quantity.countableuncountable

• The volume of ticket sales decreased this week.

A rounded mass or convolution.countableuncountable

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

To be conveyed through the air, waft.intransitive

• […] thumping guns and pattering musket-shots, the long big boom of surgent hosts, and the muffled voluming and crash of storm-bells, proclaimed that the insurrection was hot.
• […] the Colonel, before he sat down, went about shutting the registers, through which a welding heat came voluming up from the furnace.

To cause to move through the air, waft.transitive

• The censer, voluming upwards its ash-gray smoke, was now passed from hand to hand three times round the patient, and finally deposited on the floor at his feet.
• The record player on the first floor volumed up Lonnie Johnson singing, “Tomorrow night, will you remember what you said tonight?”

To swell.intransitive