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amandel
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Volume

Postby amandel » Tue Sep 28, 2021 7:25 am

The term is of classical use everyday and in Geometry, and describes the measure of space taken by an object. In the recent decades it has taken also the meaning of "quantity" - the meaning is absent on dictionaries up to the 80's, and appears uniformly later on. For a mathematician, those two uses are really at odds with each other (to be technical, the original meaning is continuous, the other one is discrete), but current usage seems settled.

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Re: Volume

Postby Slava » Thu Sep 30, 2021 6:18 am

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