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hundred-thousandfold en · ADJ

From hundred thousand + -fold.

(not-comparable) By a factor of one hundred thousand.
- This 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:
- 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 814:
- 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 485:

From hundred thousand + -fold.

(not-comparable) By a factor of one hundred thousand.
- [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:
- Their qualities, at first, increase a hundred-thousandfold, 2005, Chandrakirti, “The Ultimate Ground of Buddhahood”, in Introduction to the Middle Way, →ISBN, page 104:
- 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: