seventeenfold en · ADJ
Etymology
From seventeen + -fold.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) By a factor of seventeen.
a seventeenfold increase
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 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:The decrease in toxicity was seventeenfold […]
1950, American Cancer Society, Collected Reprints […], volume 1, page 170:
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(not-comparable) Having 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: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: