Thesaurus: volume

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1. n. A roll; a scroll; a written document rolled up for keeping or for use, after the manner of the ancients.
2. n. 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.
3. n. Anything of a rounded or swelling form resembling a roll; a turn; a convolution; a coil.
4. n. 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. n. Amount, fullness, quantity, or caliber of voice or tone.
6. n. the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object
7. n. the property of something that is great in magnitude
8. n. physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together
9. n. a publication that is one of a set of several similar publications
10. n. a relative amount
11. n. the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction)