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sixfold

sixfold

1 4.7
Having six parts or being six times bigger
  • adjective
  • /ˈsɪksfoʊld/
translation icon : sextuple
  • For instance, in the Tehran wholesale market, there is a sixfold increase in prices from Pakistan's border areas.
  • a sixfold increase

Examples

  • Present-day patterns are summarized in a sixfold typology of piazzas that integrates interactions among location, form, function, and causative process.

    Academic text (1994)
  • The research team reported a sixfold improvement in efficiency after implementing the new strategy.

  • Overall foreign investment in Africa has grown more than sixfold in the last decade.

    Blog text (19)
  • The use of renewable water resources has increased sixfold.

    Academic text (2011)
  • We have had a sixfold increase in crude oil prices during the last six years, with a pathetic demand destruction.

    Blog text (11)
  • The company is investing in a sixfold expansion of its production capacity to 30 MW a year.

    Academic text (2001)
  • No one anticipated in the early days of the war a sixfold expansion in the army's officer corps.

    Academic text (1995)
  • Taiwan's trade with China increased sixfold, from $3.9 billion in 1989 to $22.5 billion, or one-tenth of the total trade, in 1995 (see table 2).

    Academic text (1999)
  • Casino gambling has quadrupled; lottery revenues have registered a sixfold increase; and gambling on Indian reservations, nonexistent until the late 1980s, now brings in more than $3 billion each year.

    Academic text (1996)
  • From the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, Salmonella enteritidis infections increased sixfold in the northeastern United States (St. Louis et al., 1988).

    Academic text (2002)

Synonyms

sextuple
vssixfold
7.4

Having six parts

means six times as much or divided into six parts

How Many

tenfold
1 4.1
eightfold
1 5.8
sixfold
1 4.7
fourfold
3 5.1
threefold
3 4.5
twofold
15 4.0
one
1.0

Surface Forms

sixfold positive

Morphology

sixfold = six (transparent) = six + fold

Formed from the numeral 'six' plus the derivational suffix '-fold' producing an adjective meaning 'having six parts' or 'multiplied by six', which is a direct and regular derivation.

Etymology

Sixfold comes from six + fold, where fold means 'parts' or 'times', just like in twofold. So, a sixfold thing has six parts or is 'six times larger'.