tenthousandfold

Adjective

ten-thousandfold (not comparable)

1. Multiplied by ten thousand.
   • The outburst of novæ cannot be explained in this manner, as some have suggested, for it could not possibly produce a ten-thousandfold increase in light; […]1920 March 4, A[ndrew] C[laude] D[e la Cherois] Crommelin, “The Einstein Deflection of Light”, in Nature: A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Science, volume CV, number 2627, London: Macmillan and Co....

   Synonyms:

   myriadfold

2. Having ten thousand parts or members.
   • How is it, then, that with the first class of receiver, the eye, we are enabled, unless indeed we be colour-blind, to see all the beautiful and glorious varieties of nature in its ten-thousandfold hues; while the other receiver, the photographic plate, gives us but black and white?1878 January, J[oseph] Norman Lockyer, “Ears and Eyes”, in Macmillan’s Magazine, volume XXXVII, number 219, London: Macmillan and Co. […], →OCLC, page 207, column 2

   Synonyms:

   myriadfold

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