Magnitude in three dimensions; volume.

The carrying capacity of a vessel; a vessel's load, considered in terms of its size or weight. Cf. burden, n. 3.

Hence, Content. cubic, Volume, solid content. measure of capacity: the measure applied to the content of a vessel, and to liquids, grain, or the…

Solid content, volume. Obsolete. rare.

Geometry. The amount of space occupied by a solid body; volume, cubic or solid content.

Extent, size, quantity of space contained. Amount of cubical space taken up, volume. (Often solid content.)

= bulk, n.1 in its modern senses: Magnitude in three dimensions, volume; largeness of volume, bulkiness; the greater portion of anything. Only modern…

concrete. A quantity or mass (esp. a large one) regarded as matter occupying space. Also figurative.

The determination of the cubic content of a solid; the cubic content thus determined.