Meaning of -fold | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Used to make adjectives meaning times.
   morpheme
2. Used to make adverbs meaning times.
   morpheme

Examples

“There has been a threefold increase in inflation ( = inflation is three times what it was before)”

“The cancer tissue in two of the ... specimens ... exhibited a dramatic 23-fold increase in the laminin-receptor-mRNA levels.”

“"[Use] of a decimal without a zero to the left of the decimal (ie .5 instead of 0.5) has resulted in 10-fold error[.]”

“Ezekiel outlines the harlotry of Judah followed by a thirty-two-fold judgment.”

“Inflation has increased threefold ( = inflation is three times what it was before)”

“A publication ... entitled "The Sixth Financial and Economical Annual of Japan" ... issued in 1906 ... says: ¶ "...[O]ur export trade had in ... thirty-two years increased thirty-four-fold with Asia, twenty-three-fold with America, and five-fold with Europe[.]”

“His potatoes yielded forty-onefold in 1816 and his barley thirty-twofold in 1818.”

“In contrast, the number of Asian foreign born would increase twenty-two-fold to more than 11 million, and the number of Latin American foreign born would increase twenty-three-fold to 22 million.”

“BP (BP) has also promised to increase its low carbon investments 10-fold by 2030 as part of its bid to get to net zero emissions by 2050.”

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