Meaning of ten-thousandfold | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Multiplied by ten thousand.
   not-comparable
2. Having ten thousand parts or members.
   not-comparable

Examples

“The outburst of novæ cannot be explained in this manner, as some have suggested, for it could not possibly produce a ten-thousandfold increase in light; […]”

“Comparing the C_(Ag⁺) in this case with that of Example 1, where no excess of the NH₃ was present, we find that the value has decreased from 5.5 × 10⁻⁴ to 6.8 × 10⁻⁸, a ten-thousandfold decrease.”

“It is to be noted that the results agree with the simple relation given by Eq. (1) for as much as a ten-thousandfold change in δ_F.”

“For both reasons taken together—his outstanding merit and his ten-thousandfold poverty—he deserves to have his meals in the prytaneion.”

“How is it, then, that with the first class of receiver, the eye, we are enabled, unless indeed we be colour-blind, to see all the beautiful and glorious varieties of nature in its ten-thousandfold hues; while the other receiver, the photographic plate, gives us but black and white?”

“The ten-thousandfold law of punishment is rigorously enforced against every creature, man included.”

“In the case of the ten-thousandfold contract of the Mazdayasnian Religion the contracting parties can safely be held to be the Religion on the one hand, and each of the faithful on the other.”

“According to the Atthasālinī, the commentary to the Dhammasaṅgaṇī, the Buddha preached the Abhidhamma in the Tāvatiṁsa heaven—the heaven of the Thirty-three—to the devas who had gathered from the ten-thousandfold world-system; […]”

“The night was full of roaring, like the ten-thousandfold throat of the stadium.”

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