In a sentence
Six example sentences with volume, each labelled with its topic.
The recipe scales badly because a doubled dough fills more than twice the volume of the proofing tub.
Cooking
Architects widened the atrium so the lobby gained volume without adding a single square meter to the floor plan.
Architecture
Ice takes up about nine percent more volume than the water it froze from, which is why sealed bottles crack.
Science
The scan measured the volume of the patient's lungs, and the figure had grown by a fifth after six months of training.
Medicine
The airline limits cabin bags by volume rather than weight, so a soft pack squeezed through where a rigid case failed.
Travel
The tank's sensor calculates the volume of fuel remaining from the height of the liquid and the shape of the walls.
Technology
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Found in these word lists
Found in 9 published word listsAuthoritative
- Academic Keyword List (Paquot 2010)
- Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000)
- University Word List (Xue & Nation 1984)
- Business English Academic Word List
- New General Service List (Browne et al. 2013)
- Medical Academic Word List
- Nursing Word List
- Israeli Psychometric English dictionary (Campus IL / NITE)
- Science Vocabulary List
Each source is a published word list that contains volume. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.