VOLUME

I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin ~n roll, scroll, from volvere to roll Date: 14th century 1. a series of printed sheets bound typically in book form ; book , a series of issues of a periodical, album 1c, scroll 1a, the amount of space occupied by a three-dimensional object as measured in cubic units (as quarts or liters) ; cubic capacity, 4. a. amount , a considerable quantity, the amount of a substance occupying a particular ~, mass or the representation of mass in art or architecture, the degree of loudness or the intensity of a sound, see: bulk ~d adjective II. verb (~d; voluming) Date: 1815 transitive verb to send or give out in ~, intransitive verb to roll or rise in ~, III. adjective Date: circa 1945 involving large quantities