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the quiet bully of space, demanding to be measured and refusing to be ignored.
means The amount of three-dimensional space something occupies, or by extension the loudness of a sound or the size of a quantity (as in a book's bulk or a year's trading).
from From Latin 'volumen,' meaning a roll or scroll — literally something rolled up, from 'volvere,' to roll or turn (also the root of 'revolve' and 'evolve'). Ancient books were rolls of papyrus, so a 'volume' was a single rolled-up scroll. The leap to space and bulk came later: a fat scroll took up more room, and the word drifted from 'how much is rolled here' to 'how much space this fills' — and eventually, by the same logic of fullness, to 'how much sound.'
- loudness
- decibels are logarithmic; +10 means ten times the power
- book origin
- named from Latin for rolled scrolls
- liquid law
- water expands when it freezes, unlike most
- trading
- high volume signals conviction behind a price move
great pyramid of giza — approximately 2.6 million cubic meters of stone blocks
lake baikal — contains 23,615 cubic kilometers of freshwater, 23% of world's total
amazon river — discharges 209,000 cubic meters of water per second into atlantic