the collection of ancient rabbinic writings on Jewish law and tradition (the Mishna and the Gemara) that constitute the basis of religious authority in Orthodox Judaism
a person responsible for the editorial aspects of publication; the person who determines the final content of a text (especially of a newspaper or magazine)
the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction); "the kids played their music at full volume"
a publication that is one of a set of several similar publications; "the third volume was missing"; "he asked for the 1989 volume of the Annual Review"
the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object; "the gas expanded to twice its original volume"
a relative amount; "mix one volume of the solution with ten volumes of water"
(Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness
a musical form consisting of a theme repeated a fifth above or a fourth below its first statement
a dreamlike state of altered consciousness that may last for hours or days
dissociative disorder in which a person forgets who they are and leaves home to creates a new life; during the fugue there is no memory of the former life; after recovering there is no memory for events during the dissociative state