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I believe Archimedes came up with this...

Fill a beaker or glass to the brim with water.

Place the beaker in a bath, bowl or similar.

Gently place the rock into the glass of water, allow the liquid to overflow into the bowl.

The water displaced by the rock (which is now in the bowl and you can measure the volume of) is the volume of the rock.

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