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Noun
1. standalone book (i.e. not part of an anthology, series, etc.); (book published as a) single volume
Noun
2. tankōbon; individual volume of a manga series
Wikipedia definition
3. Tankōbon, with a literal meaning close to "independently appearing book", is the Japanese term, originally borrowed from classical Chinese, for a book that is complete in itself and is not part of a series or corpus (similar to a monograph), though modern Japanese publisher may use it for volumes which may be in a series and as a term as opposed to 雑誌 (magazine).
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