01 n. A roll; a scroll; a written document rolled up for keeping or for use, after the manner of the ancients.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Amount, fullness, quantity, or caliber of voice or tone.(Mus.)
Phrases & compounds
Atomic volume —
the ratio of the atomic and molecular weights divided respectively by the specific gravity of the substance in question.
Specific volume —
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° C. as a standard) to the number of cubic centimeters occupied by one gram of the substance.