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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/volume/#m1)

2) How much space something takes up or holds, measured in cubic units or in litres and millilitres. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/volume/#m2)

3) An amount of something, especially a large one (the volume of traffic). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/volume/#m3)

4) One book of a set or series (volume 3). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/volume/#m4)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/volume/#x1)
- The volume of a box 2 cm by 3 cm by 4 cm is 24 cubic centimetres. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/volume/#x2)
- We measured the volume of water in the jug: 500 millilitres. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/volume/#x3)
- Loud volume through headphones can damage your hearing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/volume/#x4)
- The encyclopedia has twenty volumes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/volume/#x5)
- Ice has a bigger volume than the same water as a liquid. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/volume/#x6)
- There was a huge volume of traffic on the motorway. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/volume/#x7)
- And the bandmaster wrote a work of twenty-five volumes about the artificial bird. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/volume/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/4-starting-a-band/11/)
- [Very loud sound for a long time, like music on full volume in earbuds all day, can damage hearing for good.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/77-hair-nails-and-ears/17/)
- [The whole squad heard his mum, from the bottom of the stairs, at full volume: «OLLIE!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/405-teams-and-voice-chat/4/)
- [A solid has a fixed shape and a fixed volume.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/11-solids-liquids-gases/6/)
- [A liquid has a fixed volume but takes the shape of its container.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/11-solids-liquids-gases/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «volume» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/volume/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.