# volume (spatial)

the amount of space that a thing have matter in

- Computed level: L9 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: spatial  ·  Arena: volume

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [space](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-space.extent), [matter](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-matter.substance)

**Through:** Space and matter together determine the amount of space in which the matter is

**Novel properties:**
- space occupied by matter
- three‑dimensional capacity

## Examples
- Mount Everest occupies about 340 million cubic meters of space in the Himalayas. *(geography)*
- The Large Hadron Collider contains 9,000 cubic meters of ultra-high vacuum across its 27-kilometer ring. *(physics)*
- The hull of the Titanic displaced 150,000 cubic feet of seawater before sinking in 1912. *(engineering)*

## Used by
- [liquid](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-liquid.state) (L15)

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-volume.spatial*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-volume.spatial.json*  
*Every definition provably resolves to space, time, energy and pattern.*