volume vs publication

volume and publication both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
volume	Yes	No	No	No
publication	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, publication is a hypernym of volume; that is, publication is a word with a broader meaning than volume:

volume (noun)	publication (noun)
physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together	the business of issuing printed matter for sale or distribution
the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction)	the act of issuing printed materials
the property of something that is great in magnitude	the communication of something to the public; making information generally known
a publication that is one of a set of several similar publications	a copy of a printed work offered for distribution
the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object
a relative amount