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milliardfold

milliardfold adjective: a milliard times so.

Adjective

milliardfold (not comparable)

  1. A milliard times so.
    • The longer such a state of affairs dragged on, the greater became the contradiction between the needs of economic and cultural development and the policy of the Government, which had developed its mighty ‘milliard-fold’ inertia.1919, Leon Trotsky, “Rules and Prospects”, in The Permanent Revolution & Results and Prospects, 1. The Peculiarities of Russian Historical Development, page 20
    • Since all tissues are potentially subject to carcinogenesis the existence of higher organisms would in general be impossible if the conversion of a normal cell into a cancerous one could take place as a result of a single mutation; even if carcinogenesis was caused by the mutation of only one out...1958, Problems of Cybernetics, Pergamon Press

Adverb

milliardfold (not comparable)

  1. By a factor of a milliard.
    • “In very few years,” says Bertholt, “insects, at their rapid rate of increase, would multiply a milliardfold, and strata would be formed of the bodies of worms and grubs.”1890, Henry Sebastian Bowden, Natural Religion, Friedrich Pustet, translation of Apologie Des Christenthums by Hettinger, Franz
    • Number is now seen working with itself and evolving itself, combining and dividing itself milliardfold.1909, Denton Jaques Snider, Cosmos and Diacosmos: The Processes of Nature Psychologically Treated, page 149

Forms of milliardfold

alternative formmilliard-fold

Origin of milliardfold

From milliard + -fold.

Questions about milliardfold

What does milliardfold mean?
Milliardfold means a milliard times so.
What part of speech is milliardfold?
Milliardfold can be an adjective or an adverb.

Words near milliardfold in the dictionary

  1. milliarcsecs
  2. milliard
  3. milliard-fold
  4. milliardaire
  5. milliardaires
  6. milliardfold
  7. milliards
  8. milliardth
  9. milliardths
  10. milliare
  11. milliares

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