volume

«volume» in Mova's school dictionary: (turn the volume up or down) — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (volume — countable and uncountable; volumes)

meaning for a pupil

1) How loud a sound is (turn the volume up or down). tree →

2) How much space something takes up or holds, measured in cubic units or in litres and millilitres. tree →

3) An amount of something, especially a large one (the volume of traffic). tree →

4) One book of a set or series (volume 3). tree →

sense in the lessons

In maths, volume is the space inside a 3-D shape: for a cuboid, volume = length × width × height, in cubic centimetres (cm³) or cubic metres (m³). In science, the volume of a liquid is measured with a measuring cylinder in millilitres (ml) or litres (l). In everyday life volume is mostly about sound: TV, music, voice. Phrases: turn the volume up/down, volume control, full volume, in volume, volume of water.

examples

• Please turn the volume down, I'm trying to sleep. tree →
• The volume of a box 2 cm by 3 cm by 4 cm is 24 cubic centimetres. tree →
• We measured the volume of water in the jug: 500 millilitres. tree →
• Loud volume through headphones can damage your hearing. tree →
• The encyclopedia has twenty volumes. tree →
• Ice has a bigger volume than the same water as a liquid. tree →
• There was a huge volume of traffic on the motorway. tree →
• And the bandmaster wrote a work of twenty-five volumes about the artificial bird. tree →

note

Maths: volume is 3-D (cubic units: cm³, m³); area is 2-D (square units: cm²); perimeter is length around (cm). 1 litre = 1000 ml = 1000 cm³. «Volume» (space) is not «mass» or «weight» (how heavy). In safety: keep headphone volume low to protect your ears.

In the corpora

• Balance means getting each part at the right volume so every part can be heard; being loudest does not make you sound best.
• Very loud sound for a long time, like music on full volume in earbuds all day, can damage hearing for good.
• The whole squad heard his mum, from the bottom of the stairs, at full volume: «OLLIE!
• A solid has a fixed shape and a fixed volume.
• A liquid has a fixed volume but takes the shape of its container.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «volume» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.