Definition of "volume" in Anglais

noun

1. 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.

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

2. Strength of sound; loudness.

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

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

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

4. A bound book.

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

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

6. (in the plural, by extension) A great amount (of meaning) about something.

7. (obsolete) A roll or scroll, which was the form of ancient books.

8. Quantity.

   • The volume of ticket sales decreased this week.

9. A rounded mass or convolution.

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

11. (computing) An accessible storage area with a single file system, typically resident on a single partition of a hard disk.

12. (bodybuilding) The total of weight worked by a muscle in one training session, the weight of every single repetition summed up.

    • (key muscle growth stimuli)

13. (climbing, bouldering) A modular foothold attached to a climbing wall used for gripping, often in triangular, pyramidal, or angular shapes.

14. (graph theory) The sum of the degrees of a set of vertices.

15. (cinematography) A green/blue-screen chromakey visual effects (“VFX”) sound stage surrounded by a multitude of filming cameras, to allow for virtual camera changes in post production, by filming the whole 3-D volume of a chromakey film set.

16. (cinematography) A sound stage film set that has walls of video monitors, substituting for an actual background, set structures, providing a changeable video matte painting. A set with a form of projected background, similar to legacy traditional rear projection and front projection sets.

verb

1. (intransitive) To be conveyed through the air, waft.

2. (transitive) To cause to move through the air, waft.