sixfold
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- adjective
- /ˈsɪksfoʊld/
- For instance, in the Tehran wholesale market, there is a sixfold increase in prices from Pakistan's border areas.
- a sixfold increase
Examples
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Present-day patterns are summarized in a sixfold typology of piazzas that integrates interactions among location, form, function, and causative process.
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The research team reported a sixfold improvement in efficiency after implementing the new strategy.
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Overall foreign investment in Africa has grown more than sixfold in the last decade.
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The use of renewable water resources has increased sixfold.
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We have had a sixfold increase in crude oil prices during the last six years, with a pathetic demand destruction.
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The company is investing in a sixfold expansion of its production capacity to 30 MW a year.
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No one anticipated in the early days of the war a sixfold expansion in the army's officer corps.
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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).
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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.
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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)
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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'.