four-fold
- adjective
- /fɔr foʊld/
- By 2012, more than 6,900 did; that was more than a four-fold increase.
- a four-fold increase
Examples
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Since 2007, that correlation has swelled more than four-fold to 86%.
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It should in theory preserve the four fold symmetry there.
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Square net or square cell net was what was required by a four fold axis and then the hexagonal net.
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For a finding to qualify as a conclusion in this study, we required that it pass the four-fold probability standard.
Academic text (1994) -
"Over the past 45 years, the number of American workers taking federal disability payments has increased four-fold relative to the number actually working."
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The reason is that there is no scientific justification to expose thousands of children to a four-fold increase in the dose of common childhood vaccines.
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Table 2 presents a four-fold division that best captures the implicit affirmative action by which characters are evaluated in history texts.
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The use of renewable energy in our city has resulted in a four-fold reduction in pollution.
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The new policy led to a four-fold increase in the number of people using public transport.
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Her business expanded to a four-fold scale, producing four times the amount of products as before.
Synonyms
Made of four parts or four times larger
Four times as much or having four parts
Having four parts
Having four parts or units
A ring in a molecule that has four atoms or groups
How Many Times
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Morphology
Etymology
The word four-fold combines four and fold, where fold means 'times' or 'layers', as in twofold or tenfold. So four-fold simply means 'four times' or 'made of four parts'.