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seventeenfold

seventeenfold adjective: by a factor of seventeen.

Adjective

seventeenfold (not comparable)

  1. By a factor of seventeen.
    • a seventeenfold increase
    • The Rapid Growth of Strip Mining
      Seventeenfold Increase Since 19141928, O. E. Kiessling, F. G. Tryon, L. Mann, The Economics of Strip Coal Mining, page 3
  2. Having seventeen parts.
    • For this (animal sacrifice) there are seventeen kindling verses; for the year is seventeenfold—there are twelve months and five seasons […]1894, “Sixth Kânda”, in Julius Eggeling, transl., The Satapatha Brâhmana, volume 3, page 174
    • The spectrum in Fig. 7a shows a clear maximum for seventeenfold rotational symmetry, […]1971, J. T. Finch, “Electron Microscopy of Proteins”, in Hans Neurath, Robert L. Hill, editors, The Proteins, volume 1, page 432

Adverb

seventeenfold (not comparable)

  1. By a factor of seventeen.
    • [The] exports from Newcastle were [tripled], from Sunderland quadrupled, and from Stockton multipled seventeenfold !1843, unknown, Local Collections, printed by William Douglas, Resurrection of the Tory Tax on Coal, p. 46
    • Since there was some kind of trifling percentage added to the bank ... prices rose about twentyfold and saving decreased around seventeenfold.1992, Prudue University, Daily Report: Central Eurasia, page 33

Examples of seventeenfold in a sentence

  • The decrease in toxicity was seventeenfold […]1950, American Cancer Society, Collected Reprints […], volume 1, page 170:
  • The number of adolescents seeking treatment for drug addiction for the first time went up from 4.9 per 100,000 in 1991 to 84.5 in 2000, also a seventeenfold increase (figure V).2003, E. A. Koshkina, “Trends in the prevalence of psychoactive substance use in the Russian Federation”, in Bulletin on Narcotics, page...
  • The vājapeya is seventeenfold; it has seventeen stotras.1976, H. W. Bodewitz, “The Agnihotra in Relation with Other Sacrifices”, in The Daily Evening and Morning Offering (Agnihotra) According to...
  • The value of imports of sugar and indigo from Saint-Domingue alone increased seventeenfold between Utrecht and the outbreak of the Seven Years War in 1756.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 160:

Origin of seventeenfold

From seventeen + -fold.

Questions about seventeenfold

What does seventeenfold mean?
Seventeenfold means by a factor of seventeen.
How do you use seventeenfold in a sentence?
The decrease in toxicity was seventeenfold […]
What part of speech is seventeenfold?
Seventeenfold can be an adjective or an adverb.

Words near seventeenfold in the dictionary

  1. Sevenstones
  2. seventeen
  3. seventeen hundred
  4. seventeen-year locust
  5. seventeen-year locusts
  6. seventeenfold
  7. seventeenish
  8. seventeenness
  9. seventeenpence
  10. seventeens
  11. seventeenth

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