\▐väl-yәm\ n [ME, fr. MF, fr. L volumen roll, scroll, fr. volvere to roll] (14c) The space occupied by an article or sample of material, including any voids, within the defining surfaces. The SI unit of volume is the cubic meter, m3, known in the past by the name stere, now deprecated (but alive and well in crossword puzzles). SI also allows the use of convenient subvolumes, e.g., m3, cm3. The exponent also operates on the abbreviated prefix in each case [i.e., 1 cm3 = 1 (cm)3 = 10–6 m3, not 0.01 m3] The special name litre (liter in the U.S.) has been approved for the cubic decimeter (dm3) but is to be used only for volumetric capacity and dry and liquid measure. No prefix other than milli- (m) or micro- (μ) should be used with liter. Some conversions of other volume units to SI are given in the Appendix.
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Gooch, J.W. (2011). Volume. In: Gooch, J.W. (eds) Encyclopedic Dictionary of Polymers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6247-8_12642
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