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How to pronounce volume in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms book
Type of production, product
Has types sketch block, coffee-table book, folio, hardback, hardcover, journal, notebook, novel, order book, paper-back book, paperback, paperback book, picture book, album, sketch pad, sketchbook, soft-cover, soft-cover book, softback, softback book
Type Words
Synonyms bulk, mass
Type of magnitude
Has types dollar volume, turnover
Derivation voluminous


the volume of exports.
Type Words
Synonyms intensity, loudness
Type of sound property
Has types crescendo


the kids played their music at full volume.
Type Words
Type of publication


the third volume was missing.
he asked for the 1989 volume of the Annual Review.
Type Words
Type of measure, quantity, amount


mix one volume of the solution with ten volumes of water.
Type Words
Type of measure, amount, quantity
Has types content, capacity
Derivation voluminous


the gas expanded to twice its original volume.

Examples of volume

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Morris'first volume told of Roosevelt's life before he became president in 1901.
From the stltoday.com
Five reports issued today showed declines in sales volume in the fourth quarter.
From the bloomberg.com
Those two beers have, respectively, 11 percent and 12 percent alcohol by volume.
From the sacbee.com
A wayside horn can target the sound to a particular area and control the volume.
From the ocregister.com
Big objects take up volume and can help keep the shelves from looking cluttered.
From the timesunion.com
Simply because of the sheer volume of the snow, that could be ill-advised today.
From the dailyherald.com
For the first time, the crowd really turned up the volume, in Princeton's favor.
From the time.com
Some investors believe the strong volume is signaling a new bull market in tech.
From the businessweek.com
Microsoft paid $45 million up front, plus $10 to $30 a box, depending on volume.
From the businessweek.com
More examples
  • The amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object; "the gas expanded to twice its original volume"
  • Bulk: the property of something that is great in magnitude; "it is cheaper to buy it in bulk"; "he received a mass of correspondence"; "the volume of exports"
  • Book: physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together; "he used a large book as a doorstop"
  • A publication that is one of a set of several similar publications; "the third volume was missing"; "he asked for the 1989 volume of the Annual Review"
  • A relative amount; "mix one volume of the solution with ten volumes of water"
  • The magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction); "the kids played their music at full volume"
  • Volume is how much three-dimensional space a substance (solid, liquid, gas, or plasma) or shape occupies or contains, often quantified numerically using the SI derived unit, the cubic metre. The volume of a container is generally understood to be the capacity of the container, i. e. ...
  • A volume is a term in data compression for a file that has been compressed and split into different parts.
  • In the context of computer operating systems, volume is the term used to describe a single accessible storage area with a single file system, typically (though not necessarily) resident on a single partition of a hard disk. ...