seventeenfold

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adjective

By a factor of seventeen.

“a seventeenfold increase”

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Meanings

adjectiveseventeenfold (not comparable)
  1. not comparableBy a factor of seventeen.

    a seventeenfold increase

    3 more examples

    The Rapid Growth of Strip Mining Seventeenfold Increase Since 1914

    1928, O. E. Kiessling, F. G. Tryon, L. Mann, The Economics of Strip Coal Mining, page 3

    The decrease in toxicity was seventeenfold […]

    1950, American Cancer Society, Collected Reprints […], volume 1, page 170

    The number of adolescents seeking treatment for drug addiction for the first time went up from 4.9 per 100,000 in 1991 to 84.5 in 2000, also a seventeenfold increase (figure V).

    2003, E. A. Koshkina, “Trends in the prevalence of psychoactive substance use in the Russian Federation”, in Bulletin on Narcotics, page 126
  2. not comparableHaving seventeen parts.

    The vājapeya is seventeenfold; it has seventeen stotras.

    1976, H. W. Bodewitz, “The Agnihotra in Relation with Other Sacrifices”, in The Daily Evening and Morning Offering (Agnihotra) According to the Brāhmaṇas, page 131
    2 more examples

    For this (animal sacrifice) there are seventeen kindling verses; for the year is seventeenfold—there are twelve months and five seasons […]

    1894, “Sixth Kânda”, in Julius Eggeling, transl., The Satapatha Brâhmana, volume 3, page 174

    The spectrum in Fig. 7a shows a clear maximum for seventeenfold rotational symmetry, […]

    1971, J. T. Finch, “Electron Microscopy of Proteins”, in Hans Neurath, Robert L. Hill, editors, The Proteins, volume 1, page 432
adverbseventeenfold (not comparable)
  1. not comparableBy a factor of seventeen.

    [The] exports from Newcastle were [tripled], from Sunderland quadrupled, and from Stockton multipled seventeenfold !

    1843, unknown, Local Collections, printed by William Douglas, Resurrection of the Tory Tax on Coal, p. 46
    2 more examples

    Since there was some kind of trifling percentage added to the bank ... prices rose about twentyfold and saving decreased around seventeenfold.

    1992, Prudue University, Daily Report: Central Eurasia, page 33

    The value of imports of sugar and indigo from Saint-Domingue alone increased seventeenfold between Utrecht and the outbreak of the Seven Years War in 1756.

    2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 160

Origin

From seventeen + -fold.

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