volume

noun

• 1a book forming part of a work or series.
• a single book or a bound collection of printed sheets.
• a consecutive sequence of issues of a periodical.
• historical a scroll of parchment or papyrus containing written matter.

• 2the amount of space that a substance or object occupies, or that is enclosed within a container, especially when great:the sewer could not cope with the volume of rainwater a volume of air
• the amount or quantity of something, especially when great:changes in the volume of consumer spending
• (a volume of/volumes of) a certain, typically large amount of something:the volumes of data handled are vast
• fullness or expansive thickness of something, especially of a person’s hair.

• 3quantity or power of sound; degree of loudness:he turned the volume up on the radio