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seventeenfold en · ADJ

Etymology

From seventeen + -fold.

Meanings

  1. (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:
  2. (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:

seventeenfold en · ADV

Etymology

From seventeen + -fold.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) By 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
    • 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:
    • 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: