Word Meanings - VOLUME - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Amount, fullness, quantity, or caliber of voice or tone. Atomic volume, Molecular volume , the ratio of the atomic and molecular weights divided respectively by the specific gravity of the substance in question. -- Specific volume , the quotient
Additional info about word: VOLUME
Amount, fullness, quantity, or caliber of voice or tone. Atomic volume, Molecular 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 4ยบ C. as a standard) to the number of cubic centimeters occupied by one gram of the substance. (more info) 1. A roll; a scroll; a written document rolled up for keeping or for use, after the manner of the ancients. volume . Encyc. Brit. 2. 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. 4. 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. 4. 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.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of VOLUME)
- Bulk
- Mass
- whole
- entirety
- integrity
- majority
- size
- magnitude
- extension
- body
- volume
- bigness
- largeness
- massiveness
- dimension
- Capacity
- Space
- tonnage
- calibre
- ability
- faculty
- compatability
- cleverness
- talents
- parts
- competency
- compressiveness
- accommodation
Related words: (words related to VOLUME)
- VOLUMENOMETRY
The method or process of measuring volumes by means of the volumenometer. - VOLUMENOMETER
An instrument for measuring the volume of a body, especially a solid, by means of the difference in tension caused by its presence and absence in a confined portion of air. - ABILITY
The quality or state of being able; power to perform, whether physical, moral, intellectual, conventional, or legal; capacity; skill or competence in doing; sufficiency of strength, skill, resources, etc.; -- in the plural, faculty, talent. Then - TONNAGE
1. The weight of goods carried in a boat or a ship. 2. The cubical content or burden of a vessel, or vessels, in tons; or, the amount of weight which one or several vessels may carry. See Ton, n. . A fleet . . . with an aggregate tonnage of 60,000 - INTEGRITY
1. The state or quality of being entire or complete; wholeness; entireness; unbroken state; as, the integrity of an empire or territory. Sir T. More. 2. Moral soundness; honesty; freedom from corrupting influence or motive; -- used especially with - SPACE
One of the intervals, or open places, between the lines of the staff. Absolute space, Euclidian space, etc. See under Absolute, Euclidian, etc. -- Space line , a thin piece of metal used by printers to open the lines of type to a regular distance - VOLUMETRIC
Of or pertaining to the measurement of volume. Volumetric analysis , that system of the quantitative analysis of solutions which employs definite volumes of standardized solutions of reagents, as measured by burettes, pipettes, etc.; also, the - WHOLENESS
The quality or state of being whole, entire, or sound; entireness; totality; completeness. - VOLUMETER
An instrument for measuring the volumes of gases or liquids by introducing them into a vessel of known capacity. - WHOLE-HOOFED
Having an undivided hoof, as the horse. - DIMENSIONAL
Pertaining to dimension. - WHOLESALE
1. Pertaining to, or engaged in, trade by the piece or large quantity; selling to retailers or jobbers rather than to consumers; as, a wholesale merchant; the wholesale price. 2. Extensive and indiscriminate; as, wholesale slaughter. "A time for - DIMENSION
The degree of manifoldness of a quantity; as, time is quantity having one dimension; volume has three dimensions, relative to extension. (more info) to measure out; di- = dis- + metiri to measure: cf. F. dimension. See 1. Measure in a single line, - ACCOMMODATION
1. The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to. "The organization of the body with accommodation to its functions." Sir M. Hale. 2. Willingness to accommodate; obligingness. - MASSIVENESS
The state or quality of being massive; massiness. - WHOLE-SOULED
Thoroughly imbued with a right spirit; noble-minded; devoted. - EXTENSIONIST
One who favors or advocates extension. - EXTENSION
That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space. (more info) 1. The act of extending or the state of being extended; a stretching out; enlargement in breadth or continuation of length; increase; augmentation; expansion. - MAGNITUDE
That which has one or more of the three dimensions, length, breadth, and thickness. 3. Anything of which greater or less can be predicated, as time, weight, force, and the like. 4. Greatness; grandeur. "With plain, heroic magnitude of mind." Milton. - ENTIRETY
1. The state of being entire; completeness; as, entirely of interest. Blackstone. 2. That which is entire; the whole. Bacon. - ADORABILITY
Adorableness. - AMENABILITY
The quality of being amenable; amenableness. Coleridge. - INTRACTABILITY
The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd. - SUITABILITY
The quality or state of being suitable; suitableness. - EQUABILITY
The quality or condition of being equable; evenness or uniformity; as, equability of temperature; the equability of the mind. For the celestial bodies, the equability and constancy of their motions argue them ordained by wisdom. Ray. - DEFLAGRABILITY
The state or quality of being deflagrable. The ready deflagrability . . . of saltpeter. Boyle. - COMMENSURABILITY
The quality of being commersurable. Sir T. Browne. - IMMEABILITY
Want of power to pass, or to permit passage; impassableness. Immeability of the juices. Arbuthnot. - INEVITABILITY
Impossibility to be avoided or shunned; inevitableness. Shelford. - EFFUMABILITY
The capability of flying off in fumes or vapor. Boyle. - DISRESPECTABILITY
Want of respectability. Thackeray. - TAMABILITY
The quality or state of being tamable; tamableness. - INSOCIABILITY
The quality of being insociable; want of sociability; unsociability. Bp. Warburton. - OPPOSABILITY
The condition or quality of being opposable. In no savage have I ever seen the slightest approach to opposability of the great toe, which is the essential distinguishing feature of apes. A. R. Wallace. - INSURMOUNTABILITY
The state or quality of being insurmountable. - REPEALABILITY
The quality or state of being repealable. - INHERITABILITY
The quality of being inheritable or descendible to heirs. Jefferson. - MUTABILITY
The quality of being mutable, or subject to change or alteration, either in form, state, or essential character; susceptibility of change; changeableness; inconstancy; variation. Plato confessed that the heavens and the frame of the world