Editor's note: This article was originally published in 2016 and has been updated for 2018. We practitioners of the technological arts have a tendency to use specialized jargon. That's not unusual.

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Big data is often differentiated by the four V’s: velocity, veracity, volume and variety. Researchers assign various measures of importance to each of the metrics, sometimes treating them equally, ...

Volume close volume The amount of space occupied by a 3D shape, measured in cubic units such as cm³, mm³, and m³. May also be referred to as capacity. is measured in cubic units such as cm³ or m³. The ...

Volume is the number of shares of a stock that have changed hands over a certain period of time, typically one day. Stocks with higher volumes have more investors interested in buying or selling them.