volume

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A collection of written or printed sheets bound together; a book.
• noun One of the books of a work printed and bound in more than one book.
• noun A series of issues of a periodical, usually covering one calendar year.
• noun A unit of written material assembled together and cataloged in a library.
• noun A roll of parchment; a scroll.
• noun The amount of space occupied by a three-dimensional object or region of space, expressed in cubic units.
• noun The capacity of such a region or of a specified container, expressed in cubic units.
• noun Amount; quantity.
• noun A large amount.
• noun The amplitude or loudness of a sound.
• noun A control, as on a radio, for adjusting amplitude or loudness.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To swell; rise in bulk or volume.
• noun A measure of the relative quantity of a substance as determined by its bulk.
• noun 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 the 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.
• noun 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.
• noun Something of a roll-like, rounded, or swelling form; a rounded mass; a coil; a convolution; a wreath; a fold: as, volumes of smoke.
• noun An amount or measure of tridimensional space; solid contents; hence, an amount or aggregated quantity of any kind.
• noun In music, quantity, fullness, or roundness of tone or sound.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun obsolete A roll; a scroll; a written document rolled up for keeping or for use, after the manner of the ancients.
• noun 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.
• noun Anything of a rounded or swelling form resembling a roll; a turn; a convolution; a coil.
• noun Dimensions; compass; space occupied, as measured by cubic units, that is, cubic inches, feet, yards, etc.; mass; bulk.
• noun (Mus.) Amount, fullness, quantity, or caliber of voice or tone.
• noun (Chem.) the ratio of the atomic and molecular weights divided respectively by the specific gravity of the substance in question.
• noun (Physics & Chem.) 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 4° C. as a standard) to the number of cubic centimeters occupied by one gram of the substance.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

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

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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