Meaning of -fold | Babel Free
Definitions
Equivalents
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.”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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