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vol.

American  

abbreviation

  1. volcano.

  2. volume.

  3. volunteer.


vol. British  

abbreviation

  1. volcano

  2. volume

  3. volunteer

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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“We also released The Old Farmer’s Almanac for Kids, vol. 10,” the publisher advises Inside the Beltway.

From Washington Times Oct. 24, 2023

The first published recipe for tomato ketchup was written in 1812 by Philadelphia scientist and horticulturalist James Mease in his “Archives of Useful Knowledge, vol. 2.”

From Salon Jul. 29, 2018

Its chief author calls it simply "the female volume," and writes this "?vol.," using the scientist's universal symbol, the mirror of Venus, for the female.

From Time Magazine Archive

And as to the rest, "none of them that I know wrote verses," I beg to refer him to Lord Bacon's Metrical Version of the Psalms, vol. iv. p.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 113, December 27, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

His papers are to be found as Appendices to Thomson and Tait's Natural Philosophy, and in vol. ii of his Popular Lectures and Addresses, which is devoted to geology and general physics.

From Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work by Andrew Gray

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