{
  "id": "volume.spatial",
  "term": "volume",
  "sense": "spatial",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 9,
  "arena": "volume",
  "domain": "spatial",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "the amount of space that a thing have matter in",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "space.extent",
      "matter.substance"
    ],
    "interaction": "Space and matter together determine the amount of space in which the matter is",
    "novel_properties": [
      "space occupied by matter",
      "three‑dimensional capacity"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Mount Everest occupies about 340 million cubic meters of space in the Himalayas.",
      "domain": "geography"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Large Hadron Collider contains 9,000 cubic meters of ultra-high vacuum across its 27-kilometer ring.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The hull of the Titanic displaced 150,000 cubic feet of seawater before sinking in 1912.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "size.measurement",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "space.extent",
      "note": "abstracts",
      "type": "abstracts"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "liquid.state"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "volume",
    "volumes"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-volume.spatial"
}