vol
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8.7
- noun
- /vɑl/
- Informal
:
volumen
- The teacher asked the students to speak with a clearer vol so everyone could hear them.
- 1% vol
- 10% vol
- 3 vols
Examples
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I had to ask him to lower the vol on the TV because it was too loud.
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Current Issues in Criminal Justice, Vol 14, 3, pp257-268
Academic text (2011) -
96 Communications of the ACM January 2012 Vol.
Academic text (2012) -
Inocula were prepared from brain tissues as 10% (wt/vol) homogenates.
Academic text (2013) -
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Friend, in The Complete Works, ed. W.G.T. Shedd, 7 vols.
Fiction book (1992) -
Petrus Berchorius, Dictionarii seu reperlorii moralis, 3 vols.
Academic text (2012) -
Kroll (2007) "A family affair? Kinship care and parental substance misuse: some dilemmas explored" Child and Family Social Work Vol 12 p84-93.
Academic text (2011) -
Fecal material was made into a suspension (10%) by dilution with 0.1 mmol/L phosphate-buffered saline, and 10% (vol/vol) chloroform was added.
Academic text (2013) -
Fecal material was made into a suspension (10%) by dilution with 0.1 mmol/L phosphate-buffered saline, and 10% (vol/vol) chloroform was added.
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Lithium-disilicate glass-ceramic is a unique glass-ceramic material, containing an interlocking microstructure from needle-like lithium-disilicate crystals of up to 70 vol% embedded in a glassy matrix.
Academic text (2016)
Synonyms
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2.4
The amount of space something takes up
Compounds
How Loud
Surface Forms
Etymology
Vol is also short for volume, a word that means the 'amount' of space something fills or the 'loudness' of sound. A helpful way to remember it is the volume knob on a speaker, which measures how much sound fills the room, so vol stands for that amount or loudness.