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sevenfold

sevenfold

1 6.2
Having seven parts or being seven times as much
  • adjective
  • /ˈsɛvənˌfoʊld/
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  • Lead poisoning prevalence (blood lead = 10 g/dL) in St. Louis children under six years of age was 28.5 percent—nearly sevenfold that found by NHANES III Part 2.
  • a sevenfold increase
  • a sevenfold risk

So that was a big, huge part of the Essene sevenfold path of peace was that we're meant to have eternal life.

Examples

  • This slogan is about resting in stillness that is free from the sevenfold mind.

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  • Additionally, the insurer is set to announce its third-quarter earnings on Wednesday, October 31, and Wall Street analysts are expecting big things from the nation's largest insurance provider, including a sevenfold rise in actual earnings from the same quarter one year ago.

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  • So that was a big, huge part of the Essene sevenfold path of peace was that we're meant to have eternal life.

  • There are flowers that have very common examples of fivefold and even sevenfold symmetry.

  • If penance took the long road into the sevenfold sacramental world of the early Scholastics, the road marriage took was both longer and more circuitous.

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  • According to a story in Montana's Missoulian newspaper, recent seasons have seen a sevenfold increase in fires greater than 10,000 acres as compared to the 1970s, and five times more fires larger than 25,000 acres.

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  • The net effect of this dedicated hardware assist is a sevenfold improvement in page-moving efficiency (measured in processor cycles required to successfully complete a 4KB page move) in comparison with predecessor S/390 CMOS systems.

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  • Brown himself credits Gardner's multiple intelligences theory with the "fascinating" reading provided by Frames of Mind (Gardner 1983), and he writes that "the implications of his new sevenfold definition of intelligence for language learning are worth exploring seriously" (Brown 1987, 76).

    Academic text (2001)
  • The charity reported a sevenfold increase in donations compared to last year.

  • Over the last decade, the population of the small town has grown sevenfold.

Synonyms

septuple
vssevenfold
8.2

Having seven parts or being seven times as much

means the same but is a different form of the word

How Many

tenfold
12 4.3
sevenfold
1 6.2
fivefold
1 5.2
threefold
2 3.9
twofold
4 3.7

Surface Forms

sevenfold positive
sevenfolder comparative
sevenfoldest superlative

Morphology

sevenfold = seven (transparent) = seven + fold

Meaning is directly derived from the numeral 'seven' combined with the multiplicative suffix '-fold' to mean 'seven times' or 'having seven parts'.

Etymology

The word sevenfold comes from seven + fold, where fold means 'times' or 'layers', the same idea you see in twofold or threefold. So, sevenfold describes something that has seven parts or is seven times as much.