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volume
English
Alternative forms
- vol. (abbreviation)
Etymology
From Old French volume, from Latin vol?men (“book, roll”), from volv? (“roll, turn about”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?v?l.ju?m/, /?v?l.j?m/
- (US) IPA(key): /?v?l.jum/, /?v?l.j?m/
Noun
volume (countable and uncountable, plural volumes)
- 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.
- Strength of sound; loudness.
- The issues of a periodical over a period of one year.
- A bound book.
- A single book of a publication issued in multi-book format, such as an encyclopedia.
- (in the plural, by extension) A great amount (of meaning) about something.
- (obsolete) A roll or scroll, which was the form of ancient books.
- Quantity.
- A rounded mass or convolution.
- (economics) The total supply of money in circulation or, less frequently, total amount of credit extended, within a specified national market or worldwide.
- (computing) An accessible storage area with a single file system, typically resident on a single partition of a hard disk.
Derived terms
- voluminous
Translations
See also
- book
- tome
- cubic distance
- Customary: ounces, pints, quarts, gallons, cubic inches (in3), cubic feet, cubic yards, cubic miles
- Metric: mililiters, liters, cubic meters (m3), cubic centimeters ("cc") (cm3)
- sound
- Universal: bels, decibels
- Metric: millipascals (mPa)
Verb
volume (third-person singular simple present volumes, present participle voluming, simple past and past participle volumed)
- (intransitive) To be conveyed through the air, waft.
- 1867, George Meredith, Vittoria, London: Chapman & Hall, Volume 2, Chapter 30, p. 258,[3]
- […] thumping guns and pattering musket-shots, the long big boom of surgent hosts, and the muffled voluming and crash of storm-bells, proclaimed that the insurrection was hot.
- 1884, William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham, Chapter 2,[4]
- […] the Colonel, before he sat down, went about shutting the registers, through which a welding heat came voluming up from the furnace.
- 1867, George Meredith, Vittoria, London: Chapman & Hall, Volume 2, Chapter 30, p. 258,[3]
- (transitive) To cause to move through the air, waft.
- 1872, George Macdonald, Wilfrid Cumbermede, London: Hurst & Blackett Volume I, Chapter 15, p. 243,[5]
- We lay leaning over the bows, now looking up at the mist blown in never-ending volumed sheets, now at the sail swelling in the wind before which it fled, and again down at the water through which our boat was ploughing its evanescent furrow.
- 1900, Walter William Skeat, Malay Magic, London: Macmillan, Chapter 6, p. 420,[6]
- The censer, voluming upwards its ash-gray smoke, was now passed from hand to hand three times round the patient, and finally deposited on the floor at his feet.
- 1969, Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, 1971, Chapter 33, p. 219,[7]
- The record player on the first floor volumed up Lonnie Johnson singing, “Tomorrow night, will you remember what you said tonight?”
- 1872, George Macdonald, Wilfrid Cumbermede, London: Hurst & Blackett Volume I, Chapter 15, p. 243,[5]
- (intransitive) To swell.
Asturian
Noun
volume m (plural volumes)
- volume
Dutch
Pronunciation
Noun
volume n (plural volumen or volumes, diminutive volumetje n)
- volume
French
Etymology
From Latin vol?men.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /v?.lym/
Noun
volume m (plural volumes)
- volume (of a book, a written work)
- volume (sound)
- volume (amount of space something takes up)
- volume (amount; quantity)
- (figuratively) an overly long piece of writing
Derived terms
Related terms
- volumétrique
- volumineux
Further reading
- “volume” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Galician
Etymology
From Latin vol?men (“a book, roll”).
Noun
volume m (plural volumes)
- volume (quantity of space)
- volume (single book of a published work)
Italian
Etymology
From Latin vol?men.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vo?lu.me/
Noun
volume m (plural volumi)
- volume (clarification of this definition is needed)
Related terms
- volumenometro
- volumetria
- volumetrico
- voluminoso
Further reading
- volume in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin vol?men (“a book, roll”).
Noun
volume m or f
- volume, specifically a collection of written works
Descendants
- ? English: volume
- French: volume
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Portuguese volume, borrowed from Latin vol?men.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /vo.?lu.mi/
- (Northeast Brazil) IPA(key): /v?.?lu.m?/, /v?.?lu.m/
Noun
volume m (plural volumes)
- (geometry) volume (unit of three-dimensional measure)
- volume; loudness (strength of sound)
- (publishing) volume (issues of a periodical over a period of one year)
- (publishing) volume (individual book of a publication issued as a set of books)
- (chiefly historical) volume (bound book)
- volume; quantity
Synonyms
- (single book of a set of books): tomo
- (quantity): quantidade, quantia
Related terms
- volumoso
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quota
English
Etymology
From Latin quota pars; see Latin quota.
Pronunciation
- (US, General American) IPA(key): /?kwo?t?/
Noun
quota (plural quotas)
- A proportional part or share; the share or proportion assigned to each in a division.
- A prescribed number or percentage that may serve as, for example, a maximum, a minimum, or a goal.
- 2020 October 30, "Olimar's Assignment", in Pikmin 3 Deluxe, Nintendo, Nintendo Switch, day 3: River:
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- (business, economics) A restriction on the import of something to a specific quantity.
Synonyms
- (proportional part): allocation, allotment, apportionment, quotum
Related terms
- numerus clausus
Translations
Dutch
Pronunciation
Noun
quota
- Plural form of quotum
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?.ta/, /kw?.ta/
Noun
quota m (plural quotas)
- quota
Further reading
- “quota” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- toqua
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?kw?.ta/
Noun
quota f (plural quote)
- share, amount, part
- fee, instalment, dues
- height, altitude, level
- depth
- quota
Derived terms
- quotare
Verb
quota
- inflection of quotare:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Latin
Pronunciation
- quota: (Classical) IPA(key): /?k?o.ta/, [?k??t?ä]
- quota: (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?kwo.ta/, [?kw??t??]
- quot?: (Classical) IPA(key): /?k?o.ta?/, [?k??t?ä?]
- quot?: (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?kwo.ta/, [?kw??t??]
Adjective 1
quota
- inflection of quotus:
- nominative/vocative feminine singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural
Adjective 2
quot?
- ablative feminine singular of quotus
References
- quota in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
Portuguese
Noun
quota f (plural quotas)
- Alternative form of cota, exclusively in the sense of the english word quota, but not for the other uses of cota meaning he quotes or armour coat).
Spanish
Noun
quota f (plural quotas)
- Obsolete spelling of cuota
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