资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Volume \Vol"ume\, n. [F., from L. volumen a roll of writing, a
   book, volume, from volvere, volutum, to roll. See {Voluble}.]
   1. A roll; a scroll; a written document rolled up for keeping
      or for use, after the manner of the ancients. [Obs.]

            The papyrus, and afterward the parchment, was joined
            together [by the ancients] to form one sheet, and
            then rolled upon a staff into a volume (volumen).
                                                  --Encyc. Brit.

   2. 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; as, a work in four volumes.

            An odd volume of a set of books bears not the value
            of its proportion to the set.         --Franklin.

   4. Anything of a rounded or swelling form resembling a roll;
      a turn; a convolution; a coil.

            So glides some trodden serpent on the grass, And
            long behind wounded volume trails.    --Dryden.

            Undulating billows rolling their silver volumes.
                                                  --W. Irving.

   4. Dimensions; compass; space occupied, as measured by cubic
      units, that is, cubic inches, feet, yards, etc.; mass;
      bulk; as, the volume of an elephant's body; a volume of
      gas.

   5. (Mus.) Amount, fullness, quantity, or caliber of voice or
      tone.

   {Atomic volume}, {Molecular volume} (Chem.), the ratio of the
      atomic and molecular weights divided respectively by the
      specific gravity of the substance in question.

   {Specific volume} (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[deg] C. as a standard)
      to the number of cubic centimeters occupied by one gram of
      the substance.