threefold

alternative three-fold · alternative 3-fold

1. not comparableThree times as great.

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   "We recognise that electrifying more of the railway is likely to be necessary to deliver decarbonisation," it stated. There's clearly a growing momentum in that direction, but some significant hurdles have still to be overcome - not least the legacy of the three-fold increase in cost on the Great Western Electrification Programme, which has become the poster project for expensive wiring.

   2020 May 20, Andrew Haines talks to Stefanie Foster, “Repurpose rail for the 2020s”, in Rail, page 33

   Synonyms: thrissome

2. not comparableTriple.

   Synonyms: ternary

alternative three-fold · alternative 3-fold

1. not comparableBy a factor of three.

   Synonyms: thrice, trebly

plural threefolds · alternative three-fold · alternative 3-fold

1. mathematicsAn algebraic variety of dimension 3.

   In this way, we find some new pairs (h#123;1,1#125;,#92;#59;h#123;2,1#125;) of Hodge numbers of Calabi-Yau threefolds.

   2015, Xun Yu, “McKay correspondence and new Calabi-Yau threefolds”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)

present singular third person threefolds · participle present threefolding · participle past threefolded · past threefolded · alternative three-fold · alternative 3-fold

1. transitiveTo make threefold; to triple.