fourfold
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5.1
- adjective
- /ˈfɔrˌfoʊld/
:
cuádruple
- There is a serious shortage of trained teachers, but encouragingly, school attendance has increased fourfold.
- fourfold increase
- fourfold typology
- fourfold approach
Examples
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Thus, the northern region appears to have a fourfold advantage over the south in terms of CPUE.
Academic text (1995) -
So, you know, when people say that that food there was fourfold the amount of food in this buffet, they mean four times.
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Today, milk production of cows has increased more than fourfold as a result of this program.
Academic text (2001) -
The objectives of the strategy are fourfold and are as follows:
Academic text (1993) -
And did I mention increasing our profit margin... fourfold?
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The number of articles in this database increased about fourfold between 1982 and 1996.
Academic text (1997) -
In the past thirty years, we have witnessed a fourfold increase in the participation of Native women in graduate education.
Academic text (2018) -
Farmers listened, and global P fertilizer use increased roughly fourfold by the turn of the century.
Academic text (2011) -
Farmers who adopt these higher-yielding seeds typically see their harvests increase two, three, or fourfold.
Academic text (2010) -
Chrysler reported first-quarter net income of $473 million on Thursday, a fourfold increase from a year ago.
Synonyms
136
1.0
To multiply an amount by four
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4.0
Made of four parts or four times larger
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4.6
Having four parts or being four times as large
In four different ways
Compounds
- Specialized
A number that shows how two things with two choices are related, for example male and female
How Many
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Fourfold comes from joining the number four and fold, an old word for 'layers' or 'times'. So something described as fourfold has four parts or is four times as much. A helpful way to remember it is to imagine folding paper twice to make four layers.