volume

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A collection of written or printed sheets bound together; a book.
2. n. One of the books of a work printed and bound in more than one book.
3. n. A series of issues of a periodical, usually covering one calendar year.
4. n. A unit of written material assembled together and cataloged in a library.
5. n. A roll of parchment; a scroll.
6. n. The amount of space occupied by a three-dimensional object or region of space, expressed in cubic units.
7. n. The capacity of such a region or of a specified container, expressed in cubic units.
8. n. Amount; quantity: a low volume of business; a considerable volume of lumber.
9. n. A large amount. Often used in the plural: volumes of praise.
10. n. The amplitude or loudness of a sound.
11. n. A control, as on a radio, for adjusting amplitude or loudness.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A measure of the relative quantity of a substance as determined by its bulk.
2. n. A written document (as of parchment, papyrus, or strips of bark) rolled up in a convenient form for keeping or use, such being anciently the prevailing form of book; a roll; a scroll. The written sheets were usually wound around a stick, termed an umbilicus, the extremities of which were called the cornua, to which a label containing the name of the author was tied. The whole was placed in a wrapper, and frequently anointed with oil of cedarwood as a preservative against insects.
3. n. Hence2. A collection of written or printed sheets bound together, whether containing a single complete work, a part of a work, or more than one separate work; a book; a tome: as, a large volume; a work in six volumes.
4. n. Something of a roll-like, rounded, or swelling form; a rounded mass; a coil; a convolution; a wreath; a fold: as, volumes of smoke.
5. n. An amount or measure of tridimensional space; solid contents; hence, an amount or aggregated quantity of any kind.
6. n. In music, quantity, fullness, or roundness of tone or sound.
7. To swell; rise in bulk or volume.

Wiktionary

1. n. A unit of 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.
2. n. Strength of sound. Measured in decibels.
3. n. The issues of a periodical over a period of one year.
4. n. A single book of a publication issued in multi-book format, such as an encyclopedia.
5. n. Quantity.
6. n. economics The total supply of money in circulation or, less frequently, total amount of credit extended, within a specified national market or worldwide.
7. n. computing An accessible storage area with a single file system, typically resident on a single partition of a hard disk.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. obsolete 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.
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.
5. n. (Mus.) Amount, fullness, quantity, or caliber of voice or tone.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a publication that is one of a set of several similar publications
2. n. physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together
3. n. the property of something that is great in magnitude
4. n. the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object
5. n. the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction)
6. n. a relative amount