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Volume vs. Issue — What's the Difference?

By Tayyaba Rehman — Updated on October 30, 2023
Volume refers to a collection of works in a series, while an issue is a single installment within a volume.
Volume vs. Issue — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Volume and Issue

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Key Differences

In the context of publications, a volume is a larger entity, encompassing several issues. It's often based on a time frame, like a year. On the other hand, an issue is a singular, regular publication within that volume. Think of a volume as a book in a series and an issue as a chapter in that book.
A volume typically signifies a major division in a series. It can span multiple issues, representing a significant portion of the content. An issue, conversely, is a more frequent, individual publication. Each issue contributes to the broader scope of the volume.
When considering a journal or a magazine, volumes are used to mark the passing of years or significant periods. An issue, however, marks a specific point within that period, often released monthly or quarterly. The volume provides a broad frame, while the issue fills in the finer details.
Volumes offer a way to organize the larger body of work, often denoting a major change or continuation from one year to the next. Issues, however, are the tangible pieces that readers hold, each with unique content but tied together under the umbrella of a volume.
In summary, a volume is a collection of issues, usually bound by a year or a significant period. An issue is a single, standalone publication, part of a greater volume, with its own unique content.
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Comparison Chart

Frequency

Typically annual or semi-annual
Often monthly, bi-monthly, or weekly

Content Scope

Broad, encompassing multiple issues
Specific to one edition

Serial Numbering

Consecutive, often starting anew
Continuous within a volume

Duration

Longer, often a year
Shorter, based on publication cycle

Reader Perspective

Represents a collection
Represents an individual edition

Compare with Definitions

Volume

A measure of quantity in business or finance.
The trading volume on the stock exchange was exceptionally high today.

Issue

An important topic or problem for debate or discussion.
Environmental pollution is a major issue that needs immediate attention.

Volume

An amount or quantity of something, especially when great.
He has a large volume of work to complete by the end of the week.

Issue

A result or outcome of something.
The main issue of the meeting was the lack of funding.

Volume

Volume is the quantity of three-dimensional space enclosed by a closed surface, for example, the space that a substance (solid, liquid, gas, or plasma) or 3D shape occupies or contains. Volume is often quantified numerically using the SI derived unit, the cubic metre.

Issue

To come forth, emanate, or proceed.
The new guidelines will issue from the director's office.

Volume

A collection of written or printed sheets bound together; a book.

Issue

A point or matter of discussion, debate, or dispute
What legal and moral issues should we consider?.

Volume

One of the books of a work printed and bound in more than one book.

Issue

A matter of public concern
Debated economic issues.

Volume

A series of issues of a periodical, usually covering one calendar year.

Issue

A misgiving, objection, or complaint
Had issues with the plan to change the curriculum.

Volume

A unit of written material assembled together and cataloged in a library.

Issue

A problem or difficulty.

Volume

A roll of parchment; a scroll.

Issue

A personal problem
Is convinced that her boss has issues.

Volume

The amount of space occupied by a three-dimensional object or region of space, expressed in cubic units.

Issue

The act of circulating, distributing, or publishing by a business, government, or organization
Government issue of new bonds.

Volume

The capacity of such a region or of a specified container, expressed in cubic units.

Issue

An item or set of items, as stamps or coins, made available at one time by a business, government, or organization.

Volume

Amount; quantity:a low volume of business; a considerable volume of lumber.

Issue

A single copy of a periodical
The May issue of the magazine.

Volume

OftenvolumesA large amount:volumes of praise.

Issue

A distinct set of copies of an edition of a book distinguished from others of that edition by variations in the printed matter.

Volume

The amplitude or loudness of a sound.

Issue

Proceeds from estates or fines.

Volume

A control, as on a radio, for adjusting amplitude or loudness.

Issue

Something proceeding from a specified source
Suspicions that were the issue of a deranged mind.

Volume

A three-dimensional measure of space that comprises a length, a width and a height. It is measured in units of cubic centimeters in metric, cubic inches or cubic feet in English measurement.
The room is 9x12x8, so its volume is 864 cubic feet.
The proper products can improve your hair's volume.

Issue

A culminating point leading to a decision
Bring a case to an issue.

Volume

Strength of sound; loudness.
Please turn down the volume on the stereo.
Volume can be measured in decibels.

Issue

A final result or conclusion, as a solution to a problem.

Volume

The issues of a periodical over a period of one year.
I looked at this week's copy of the magazine. It was volume 23, issue 45.

Issue

The act or an instance of flowing, passing, or giving out
Where the lake gives issue to its waters.

Volume

A bound book.

Issue

A place of egress; an outlet
A lake with no issue to the sea.

Volume

A single book of a publication issued in multi-book format, such as an encyclopedia.
The letter "G" was found in volume 4.

Issue

A discharge, as of blood or pus.

Volume

A great amount (of meaning) about something.

Issue

A lesion, wound, or ulcer producing such a discharge.

Volume

(obsolete) A roll or scroll, which was the form of ancient books.

Issue

Offspring; progeny
Died without issue.

Volume

Quantity.
The volume of ticket sales decreased this week.

Issue

To flow, go, or come out
Water issuing from a spring.
Voices issuing from a room.

Volume

A rounded mass or convolution.

Issue

To proceed from a source; emerge or come forth
Ideas issuing from a discussion. ].

Volume

(economics) The total supply of money in circulation or, less frequently, total amount of credit extended, within a specified national market or worldwide.

Issue

The action or an instance of flowing or coming out, an outflow, particularly:

Volume

(computing) An accessible storage area with a single file system, typically resident on a single partition of a hard disk.

Issue

A movement of soldiers towards an enemy, a sortie.

Volume

(bodybuilding) The total of weight worked by a muscle in one training session, the weight of every single repetition summed up.

Issue

The outflow of a bodily fluid, particularly in abnormal amounts.
The technique minimizes the issue of blood from the incision.

Volume

(intransitive) To be conveyed through the air, waft.

Issue

Someone or something that flows out or comes out, particularly:

Volume

(transitive) To cause to move through the air, waft.

Issue

The bodily fluid drained through a natural or artificial issue.

Volume

(intransitive) To swell.

Issue

Offspring: one's natural child or children.
He died lawyered up.

Volume

A roll; a scroll; a written document rolled up for keeping or for use, after the manner of the ancients.
The papyrus, and afterward the parchment, was joined together [by the ancients] to form one sheet, and then rolled upon a staff into a volume (volumen).

Issue

Progeny: all one's lineal descendants.
Although his own kingdom disappeared, his issue went on to rule a quarter of Europe.

Volume

Hence, a collection of printed sheets bound together, whether containing a single work, or a part of a work, or more than one work; a book; a tome; especially, that part of an extended work which is bound up together in one cover; as, a work in four volumes.
An odd volume of a set of books bears not the value of its proportion to the set.

Issue

A race of people considered as the descendants of some common ancestor.

Volume

Anything of a rounded or swelling form resembling a roll; a turn; a convolution; a coil.
So glides some trodden serpent on the grass,And long behind wounded volume trails.
Undulating billows rolling their silver volumes.

Issue

The produce or income derived from farmland or rental properties.
3. A conveys to B all right to the real property aforementioned for a term of _____ years, with all said real property's attendant issues, rents, and profits.

Volume

Dimensions; compass; space occupied, as measured by cubic units, that is, cubic inches, feet, yards, etc.; mass; bulk; as, the volume of an elephant's body; a volume of gas.

Issue

Income derived from fines levied by a court or law-enforcement officer; the fines themselves.

Volume

Amount, fullness, quantity, or caliber of voice or tone.

Issue

The entrails of a slaughtered animal.

Volume

The amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object;
The gas expanded to twice its original volume

Issue

Any action or deed performed by a person.

Volume

The property of something that is great in magnitude;
It is cheaper to buy it in bulk
He received a mass of correspondence
The volume of exports

Issue

Luck considered as the favor or disfavor of nature, the gods, or God.

Volume

Physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together;
He used a large book as a doorstop

Issue

A single edition of a newspaper or other periodical publication.
Yeah, I just got the June issue of Wombatboy.

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

Issue

The entire set of some item printed and disseminated during a certain period, particularly a single printing of a particular edition of a work when contrasted with other print runs.
The May 1918 issue of US 24-cent stamps became famous when a printer's error inverted its depiction of an airmail plane.

Volume

A relative amount;
Mix one volume of the solution with ten volumes of water

Issue

The entire set of something; all of something.
The bloody sergeant snaffled our whole issue of booze, dammit.

Volume

The magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction);
The kids played their music at full volume

Issue

(finance) Any financial instrument issued by a company.
The company's issues have included securities.

Volume

A single book or a bound part of a series of works.
The third volume of the encyclopedia contains information on medieval history.

Issue

The loan of a book etc. from a library to a patron; all such loans by a given library during a given period.

Volume

The amount of space that a substance or object occupies.
The volume of this container is two liters.

Issue

The means or opportunity by which something flows or comes out, particularly:

Volume

The degree of sound intensity or audibility; loudness.
Please turn down the volume; the music is too loud.

Issue

A sewer.

Issue

The place where something flows or comes out, an outlet, particularly:

Issue

An exit from a room or building.

Issue

A confluence: the mouth of a river; the outlet of a lake or other body of water.

Issue

The action or an instance of sending something out, particularly:
The issue of the directive from the treasury prompted the central bank's most recent issue of currency.

Issue

A small incision, tear, or artificial ulcer, used to drain fluid and usually held open with a pea or other small object.

Issue

The production or distribution of something for general use.
Congress delegated the issue of US currency to the Federal Reserve in 1913.

Issue

The distribution of something (particularly rations or standardized provisions) to someone or some group.
The uniform was standard prison issue.

Issue

(finance) The action or an instance of a company selling bonds, stock, or other securities.
The company's stock issue diluted his ownership.

Issue

Any question or situation to be resolved, particularly:
Please stand by. We are having technical issues.

Issue

A point of law or fact in dispute or question in a legal action presented for resolution by the court.
The issue before the court is whether participation in a group blog makes the plaintiff a public figure under the relevant statute.

Issue

Anything in dispute, an area of disagreement whose resolution is being debated or decided.
For chrissakes, John, don't make an issue out of it. Just sleep on the floor if you want.

Issue

A dispute between two alternatives, a dilemma.

Issue

A psychological or emotional difficulty, any problem or concern considered as a vague and intractable difficulty.
She has daddy issues, mommy issues, drug issues, money issues, trust issues, printer issues... I'm just sayin', girl's got issues.

Issue

The action or an instance of concluding something, particularly:

Issue

The end of any action or process.

Issue

The end of any period of time.

Issue

The end result of an event or events, any result or outcome, particularly:

Issue

The result of a discussion or negotiation, an agreement.

Issue

The result of an investigation or consideration, a conclusion.

Issue

The action or an instance of feeling some emotion.

Issue

The action or an instance of leaving any state or condition.

Issue

To flow out, to proceed from, to come out or from.
The water issued forth from the spring.
The rents issuing from the land permitted him to live as a man of independent means.

Issue

To rush out, to sally forth.
The men issued from the town and attacked the besiegers.

Issue

To extend into, to open onto.
The road issues into the highway.

Issue

To turn out in a certain way, to result in.

Issue

(archaic) To end up as, to turn out being, to become as a result.

Issue

(legal) To come to a point in fact or law on which the parties join issue.

Issue

To send out; to put into circulation.
The Federal Reserve issues US dollars.

Issue

To deliver for use.
The prison issued new uniforms for the inmates.

Issue

To deliver by authority.
The court issued a writ of mandamus.

Issue

The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out from any inclosed place; egress; as, the issue of water from a pipe, of blood from a wound, of air from a bellows, of people from a house.

Issue

The act of sending out, or causing to go forth; delivery; issuance; as, the issue of an order from a commanding officer; the issue of money from a treasury.

Issue

That which passes, flows, or is sent out; the whole quantity sent forth or emitted at one time; as, an issue of bank notes; the daily issue of a newspaper.

Issue

Progeny; a child or children; offspring. In law, sometimes, in a general sense, all persons descended from a common ancestor; all lineal descendants.
If the kingShould without issue die.

Issue

Produce of the earth, or profits of land, tenements, or other property; as, A conveyed to B all his right for a term of years, with all the issues, rents, and profits.

Issue

A discharge of flux, as of blood.

Issue

An artificial ulcer, usually made in the fleshy part of the arm or leg, to produce the secretion and discharge of pus for the relief of some affected part.

Issue

The final outcome or result; upshot; conclusion; event; hence, contest; test; trial.
Come forth to viewThe issue of the exploit.
While it is hot, I 'll put it to the issue.

Issue

A point in debate or controversy on which the parties take affirmative and negative positions; a presentation of alternatives between which to choose or decide; a point of contention; a matter in controversy.

Issue

In pleading, a single material point of law or fact depending in the suit, which, being affirmed on the one side and denied on the other, is presented for determination. See General issue, under General, and Feigned issue, under Feigned.
As much at issue with the summer dayAs if you brought a candle out of doors.

Issue

To pass or flow out; to run out, as from any inclosed place.
From it issued forced drops of blood.

Issue

To go out; to rush out; to sally forth; as, troops issued from the town, and attacked the besiegers.

Issue

To proceed, as from a source; as, water issues from springs; light issues from the sun.

Issue

To proceed, as progeny; to be derived; to be descended; to spring.
Of thy sons that shall issue from thee.

Issue

To extend; to pass or open; as, the path issues into the highway.

Issue

To be produced as an effect or result; to grow or accrue; to arise; to proceed; as, rents and profits issuing from land, tenements, or a capital stock.

Issue

To close; to end; to terminate; to turn out; as, we know not how the cause will issue.

Issue

In pleading, to come to a point in fact or law, on which the parties join issue.

Issue

To send out; to put into circulation; as, to issue notes from a bank.

Issue

To deliver for use; as, to issue provisions.

Issue

To send out officially; to deliver by authority; as, to issue an order; to issue a writ.

Issue

An important question that is in dispute and must be settled;
The issue could be settled by requiring public education for everyone
Politicians never discuss the real issues

Issue

One of a series published periodically;
She found an old issue of the magazine in her dentist's waitingroom

Issue

The provision of something by issuing it (usually in quantity);
A new issue of stamps
The last issue of penicillin was over a month ago

Issue

Some situation or event that is thought about;
He kept drifting off the topic
He had been thinking about the subject for several years
It is a matter for the police

Issue

Supplies (as food or clothing or ammunition) issued by the government

Issue

The immediate descendants of a person;
She was the mother of many offspring
He died without issue

Issue

A phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon;
The magnetic effect was greater when the rod was lengthwise
His decision had depressing consequences for business
He acted very wise after the event

Issue

The income arising from land or other property;
The average return was about 5%

Issue

The becoming visible;
Not a day's difference between the emergence of the andrenas and the opening of the willow catkins

Issue

An opening that permits escape or release;
He blocked the way out
The canyon had only one issue

Issue

The act of issuing printed materials

Issue

Prepare and issue for public distribution or sale;
Publish a magazine or newspaper

Issue

Circulate or distribute or equip with;
Issue a new uniform to the children
Supply blankets for the beds

Issue

Bring out an official document (such as a warrant)

Issue

Come out of;
Water issued from the hole in the wall
The words seemed to come out by themselves

Issue

Make out and issue;
Write out a check
Cut a ticket
Please make the check out to me

Issue

The act of supplying or distributing something, especially for use or sale.
The government will issue new passports next month.

Issue

A version or edition of a newspaper, magazine, or journal.
Did you read the latest issue of the science magazine?

Common Curiosities

How does 'volume' relate to measurements?

It refers to the amount of space an object or substance occupies.

What does 'volume' mean in books?

It refers to a single book or part of a series of works.

Is 'issue' used in a legal context?

Yes, it can mean the result or outcome of a legal case.

Can 'issue' mean a problem or topic?

Yes, it often refers to an important topic for discussion.

Does 'volume' have a business meaning?

Yes, it can refer to the quantity or amount in business transactions.

How are volumes numbered in journals?

They are usually numbered consecutively, often starting anew each year.

Can 'volume' signify a collection?

Yes, it can represent a collection of issues or works.

Can 'volume' indicate a large quantity?

Yes, it can refer to a large amount or quantity of something.

What does 'issue' mean in a magazine?

It's a single edition or version of a magazine.

Can 'volume' refer to sound?

Yes, it can mean the loudness or intensity of sound.

What does 'issue' mean in terms of distribution?

It means to supply or distribute something.

Is each issue unique within a volume?

Yes, each issue has unique content within the broader volume.

How often are issues published?

It varies, but often monthly, bi-monthly, or weekly.

Does 'issue' have a meaning related to origination?

Yes, it can mean to come forth or emanate from a source.

Are issues part of volumes in publications?

Yes, issues are individual editions that make up a volume.

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Tayyaba Rehman is a distinguished writer, currently serving as a primary contributor to askdifference.com. As a researcher in semantics and etymology, Tayyaba's passion for the complexity of languages and their distinctions has found a perfect home on the platform. Tayyaba delves into the intricacies of language, distinguishing between commonly confused words and phrases, thereby providing clarity for readers worldwide.

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