volumeとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Old French volume, from Latin volūmen (“book, roll”), from volvō (“roll, turn about”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈvɒl.juːm/, /ˈvɒl.jʊm/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈvɑl.jum/, /ˈvɑl.jəm/

名詞

volume (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 volumes)

1. 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.

   The room is 9x12x8, so its volume is 864 cubic feet.

   • 1997, A. J. Taylor; D. S. Mothram, editors, Flavour Science: Recent Developments‎^[1], Elsevier, →ISBN, page 63:

     Volatiles of kecap manis and its raw materials were extracted using Likens-Nickerson apparatus with diethyl ether as the extraction solvent. The extracts were then dried with anhydrous sodium sulfate, concentrated using a rotary evaporator followed by flushing using nitrogen until the volume was about 0.5 ml.

2. Strength of sound; loudness.

   Please turn down the volume on the stereo.

   Volume can be measured in decibels.

3. The issues of a periodical over a period of one year.

   I looked at this week's copy of the magazine. It was volume 23, issue 45.

4. A bound book.
   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 1, in The Celebrity:

     However, with the dainty volume my quondam friend sprang into fame. At the same time he cast off the chrysalis of a commonplace existence.

5. A single book of a publication issued in multi-book format, such as an encyclopedia.

   The letter "G" was found in volume 4.

6. (obsolete) A roll or scroll, which was the form of ancient books.
7. Quantity.

   The volume of ticket sales decreased this week.

8. A rounded mass or convolution.
9. (economics) The total supply of money in circulation or, less frequently, total amount of credit extended, within a specified national market or worldwide.
10. (computing) An accessible storage area with a single file system, typically resident on a single partition of a hard disk.

派生語

• voluminous

参考

• 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)

動詞

volume (三人称単数 現在形 volumes, 現在分詞 voluming, 過去形および過去分詞形 volumed)

1. (intransitive) To be conveyed through the air, waft.
   • 1867, George Meredith, Vittoria, London: Chapman & Hall, Volume 2, Chapter 30, p. 258,^[2]

     […] 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,^[3]

     […] the Colonel, before he sat down, went about shutting the registers, through which a welding heat came voluming up from the furnace.

2. (transitive) To cause to move through the air, waft.
   • 1872, George Macdonald, Wilfrid Cumbermede, London: Hurst & Blackett Volume I, Chapter 15, p. 243,^[4]

     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,^[5]

     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,^[6]

     The record player on the first floor volumed up Lonnie Johnson singing, “Tomorrow night, will you remember what you said tonight?”

3. (intransitive) To swell.