What is the difference between volume and amount?
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A unit of 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.
Strength of sound. Measured in decibels.
The issues of a periodical over a period of one year.
A book.
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, passage=However, with the dainty volume my quondam friend sprang into fame. At the same time he cast off the chrysalis of a commonplace existence.}}
A single book of a publication issued in multi-book format, such as an encyclopedia.
Quantity.
(economics) The total supply of money in circulation or, less frequently, total amount of credit extended, within a specified national market or worldwide.
(computing) An accessible storage area with a single file system, typically resident on a single partition of a hard disk.
The total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English).
A quantity or volume.
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, volume=189, issue=7, page=26, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= The number (the sum) of elements in a set.
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To total or evaluate.
To be the same as or equivalent to.
(obsolete) To go up; to ascend.
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As nouns the difference between volume and amount
is that volume is a unit of 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 while amount is the total, aggregate or sum of material not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English.As a verb amount is
to total or evaluate.volume
English
(wikipedia volume)Alternative forms
* (abbreviation)Noun
(en noun)See also
* 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)Derived terms
* voluminousamount
English
(Quantity)Noun
(en noun)How algorithms rule the world, passage=The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives.
- The final amount of students who have participated to mobility for the period 1995-1999 is held to be around 460 000.
Derived terms
* principal amount * notional amountVerb
(en verb)- It amounts to three dollars and change.
- He was a pretty good student, but never amounted to much professionally.
- His response amounted to gross insubordination
- So up he rose, and thence amounted straight.