Meaning of volume in English

He lifted a fat volume down from the shelf.
Waugh's first volume of memoirs dealt with his childhood and youth.
He penetrates deeper into the artist's life in the second volume of his autobiography.
She picked up a thick volume and began to read out loud.
This is the eighth volume in the series, which totals 21 volumes in all.

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(Definition of volume from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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volume

noun

/ˈvɑl·jəm, -jum/

volume noun (SPACE)

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[ C/U ]

an amount of space having length, height, and width:

[ C ] You need a big air conditioner to cool a large volume of space.

[ U ] About 8 percent of the total volume of garbage is plastic packaging.

volume noun (AMOUNT)

[ C usually sing ]

the number or amount of something having a lot of units or parts:

The main difficulty with teaching is the sheer volume of work.

The system could not handle the volume of electronic mail.

We are looking for a high volume of sales.

volume noun (SOUND LEVEL)

[ U ]

the level of sound produced by a television, radio, etc., or the switch or other device controlling this:

Could you turn the volume down, please – I’m trying to sleep.

volume noun (BOOK)

[ C ]

a book, esp. one book in a set of related books:

a slim volume of poetry

I’m missing the last volume of the set.

(Definition of volume from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

volume | Business English

volume

noun [ C or U ]

/ˈvɒljuːm/ us

(abbreviation vol.)

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the amount of space that is contained within an object, or that is filled by an object or substance:

What is the volume of the fuel tank?

the total number or amount of something:

The helpline could not handle the volume of calls from people having problems.

by volume The company is now the number one swimwear retailer by volume.

Imports of consumer goods have risen in volume by 10%.

Retail sales volumes rose by 5.4% in the year to May in Sweden.

STOCK MARKET

the total number of shares that are bought or sold on a stock market within a particular period of time:

Trading volume totaled more than 2.8 million shares.

The average daily volume has been 700,860 shares a day for the past three months.

heavy/light/moderate volume There could be volatility before year-end due to light volume.

in volume

in large quantities:

They will not begin manufacturing the laptop in volume unless they have firm commitments from buyers.

The company will begin shipping in volume next month.

Examples of volume

volume

The project is intended to be comprised of four volumes.

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With at least forty-nine volumes in print the achievement is immense.

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There is evidence that low volumes of specialized services, as frequently occurs in rural hospitals, may result in poorer outcomes.

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Promotility agents should be considered in patients with high gastric residual volumes.

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Although the recirculation design may suggest that the neutrophils pass over the cell monolayer several times, the volumes and perfusion rates suggest otherwise.

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If feldspar is present, it is in minor volumes or traces.

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An additional and severe problem is that the volumes of data which are already collected are huge by the standards of only a decade ago.

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The volume's use to readers new to this subject would also have benefited from the inclusion of a unified bibliography and index.

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Second, neuroimaging may indicate that overall brain volumes are decreased in these infants.

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Statistical analyses must therefore account for these scaling effects when comparing brain volumes across men and women or across age groups.

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Although they are companion volumes, these two books can be used quite independently of each other.

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Meantime, we are using every computer device and advance that will speed completion of the five volumes.

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The volume's structure coherently reflects its authors' focus on social factors.

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Several similar volumes have been dated to the mid-sixteenth-century by their repertory and by dates inscribed on banderoles within their initial capitals.

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Thirteen chapters cover taxonomy and distribution, production volumes, ecology and agronomy, harvesting, processing, economics and marketing.

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Collocations with volume

volume

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average volume

Within an individual embryo, the average volume density represents summary counts from micrographs for that embryo.

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bound volume

The rescript may date to 1862-1864, given its location in the bound volume.

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cell volume

Blood volume was derived from red cell volume and haematocrit values.

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What is the pronunciation of volume?

B2,B1,C2,C2

Translations of volume

in Chinese (Traditional)

數量, 容積, 體積…

Meaning of volume in English

volume noun (AMOUNT)

volume noun (SOUND LEVEL)

volume noun (BOOK)

volume | American Dictionary

volume noun (SPACE)

volume noun (AMOUNT)

volume noun (SOUND LEVEL)

volume noun (BOOK)

volume | Business English

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