Meanings
- not comparableBy a factor of one hundred thousand.
A crime of ... a hundred-thousandfold from worshipping [the Buddha shall undoubtedly be expiated].
1893, Robert George Hobbes, Reminiscences of Seventy Years' Life, Travel, and Adventure, page 4852 more examples
Thus, a hundred-thousandfold dilution of pollen would equal 10 [units of pollen], a thousandfold dilution would equal 1000 [units of pollen], and so on.
1911, J. Freeman, “Further Observations on the Treatment of Hay Fever by Hypodermic Inoculations of Pollen Vaccine.”, in The Lancet, page 814This refers to the obligation to preform a hundred-thousandfold recitation of the refuge formula (skyabs 'gro, refuge in the Buddha, the Law, and the Community)[.]
2012, Tucci, “Monkhood, Monastery Life, Religious Calendar, Festivals”, in Religions of Tibet, →ISBN, page 157
- not comparableBy a factor of one hundred thousand.
Their qualities, at first, increase a hundred-thousandfold,
2005, Chandrakirti, “The Ultimate Ground of Buddhahood”, in Introduction to the Middle Way, →ISBN, page 1042 more examples
Similarly, why is it that when Goldhaber speaks, his attention gain is "illusorily magnified" by an audience of 500 while Oprah's is magnified [a] hundred-thousandfold more?
1997, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, “Economics is Dead. Long Live Economics!”, in Journals@UIC, archived from the original on 12 Oct 2022[Companies] began selling robots that reduced the cost of reading DNA letters by ... one hundred-thousandfold.
2018, David Reich, Who We Are and How We Got Here, →ISBN, page 14
Origin
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