\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.