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The amount of three-dimensional space a body or region occupies, measured in cubic units such as the cubic metre or, for fluids, the litre. In the International System of Units the cubic metre is the coherent derived unit for volume, formed from the metre, and the litre is accepted for use alongside it. The referent is a region of space and its size, and the number answers how much room a thing takes up, independent of how heavy it is or how it sounds. This is the oldest and most literal meaning of the word, and it shares only the name with the loudness of a sound or the count of shares traded.[1]
The perceived loudness of a sound, a psychological magnitude that depends on a listener, as distinct from the physical intensity or pressure of the sound wave, which a meter reads with no ear present. Fletcher and Munson set out in 1933 how loudness is defined, measured, and calculated, and Stevens proposed the sone in 1936 as a scale on which a sound judged twice as loud takes twice the number. Two sounds of equal physical intensity can differ in loudness, because the ear's sensitivity changes with frequency, so loudness is not the same quantity as intensity. The referent is a hearer's experience, scaled in sones or phons, not a region of space and not a tally of trades.[2][3]
The quantity of a security traded over a period, counted as the number of shares or contracts that change hands, not the space they take up and not how loud the market is. Karpoff's 1987 survey of the relation between price changes and trading volume treats volume as a count of transactions and studies how it moves with price. The referent is a market over an interval, and the unit is a tally of shares or contracts, reported per day or per session. It shares the word with geometric volume, but nothing three-dimensional is being measured; the figure is a headcount of trades.[4]
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