# volume

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈvɒl.juːm/ · frequency rank #1,806

## Definitions
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.
2. Strength of sound: how loud it is.
3. The issues of a periodical over a period of one year.
4. A bound book.
5. A single book of a publication issued in multi-book format, such as an encyclopedia.
6. A great amount (of meaning) about something.
7. A roll or scroll, which was the form of ancient books.
8. Quantity.
9. A rounded mass or convolution.
10. The total supply of money in circulation or, less frequently, total amount of credit extended, within a specified national market or worldwide.
11. An accessible storage area with a single file system, typically resident on a single partition of a hard disk.
12. The total of weight worked by a muscle in one training session, the weight of every single repetition summed up.
13. A modular foothold attached to a climbing wall used for gripping, often in triangular, pyramidal, or angular shapes.
14. The sum of the degrees of a set of vertices.
15. 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. 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.

## Etymology
From Middle English volume, from Old French volume, from Latin volūmen (“book, roll”), from volvō (“roll, turn about”).

## Easily confused with
- **volumes** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/volume-vs-volumes)
- **vole** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vole-vs-volume)
- **value** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/value-vs-volume)
- **vogue** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vogue-vs-volume)

## Common misspellings (8)
`ovlume`, `vloume`, `vollume`, `volmue`, `voluem`, `volumme`, `voulme`, `vvolume`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/volume