ten-thousandfold

See also: tenthousandfold

English

English numbers ^(edit)

	10,000
	1,000
Cardinal: ten thousand, myriad     Ordinal: ten-thousandth, myriadth     Multiplier: ten-thousandfold, myriadfold     Group collective: myriad     Metric collective prefix: myria-     Metric fractional prefix: dimi-     Number of years: decamillennium

Alternative forms

• tenthousandfold

Etymology

From ten thousand +‎ -fold.

Adjective

ten-thousandfold (not comparable)

1. Multiplied by ten thousand.

   Synonym: myriadfold

   • 1920 March 4, A[ndrew] C[laude] D[e la Cherois] Crommelin, “The Einstein Deflection of Light”, in Nature: A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Science, volume CV, number 2627, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited; New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →ISSN, page 24, column 1:

     The outburst of novæ cannot be explained in this manner, as some have suggested, for it could not possibly produce a ten-thousandfold increase in light; […]

   • 1942, Carl J[ohn] Engelder, “[Complex-Ion Equilibria] Calculations Involving Complex Ions”, in Calculations of Qualitative Analysis, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman & Hall, Limited, published 1947 January, →OCLC, pages 105–106:

     Comparing the C_Ag⁺ in this case with that of Example 1, where no excess of the NH₃ was present, we find that the value has decreased from 5.5 × 10⁻⁴ to 6.8 × 10⁻⁸, a ten-thousandfold decrease.

   • 1950 May 8, Merril F[rancis] Distad, “Equilibrium Currents Induced in Zincblende by Electron Bombardment of Negative Electrode”, in The Physical Review, second series, volume 80, number 5, published 1950 December 1, →ISSN, section IV (Equilibrium Bombardment Yield), page 883, column 1:

     It is to be noted that the results agree with the simple relation given by Eq. (1) for as much as a ten-thousandfold change in δ_F.

   • a. 1974, Leo Strauss, “On Plato’s Apology of Socrates and Crito”, in Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy, Chicago, Ill.; London: The University of Chicago Press, published 1983, →ISBN, page 49:

     For both reasons taken together—his outstanding merit and his ten-thousandfold poverty—he deserves to have his meals in the prytaneion.

2. Having ten thousand parts or members.

   Synonym: myriadfold

   • 1878 January, J[oseph] Norman Lockyer, “Ears and Eyes”, in Macmillan’s Magazine, volume XXXVII, number 219, London: Macmillan and Co. […], →OCLC, page 207, column 2:

     How is it, then, that with the first class of receiver, the eye, we are enabled, unless indeed we be colour-blind, to see all the beautiful and glorious varieties of nature in its ten-thousandfold hues; while the other receiver, the photographic plate, gives us but black and white?

   • 1906 June 23, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “[Reflections on Religion] Four”, in Ray Fabrizio, Edith Karas, Ruth Menmuir, compilers, The Rhetoric of No, New York, N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., published 1970, →ISBN, section “The Impassioned NO”, page 18:

     The ten-thousandfold law of punishment is rigorously enforced against every creature, man included.

   • 1959, Ilya Gershevitch, “Commentary”, in The Avestan Hymn to Mithra (University of Cambridge Oriental Publications; 4), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →OCLC, section 117¹, page 268:

     In the case of the ten-thousandfold contract of the Mazdayasnian Religion the contracting parties can safely be held to be the Religion on the one hand, and each of the faithful on the other.

   • 1966, Nyanaponika Thera, “[The Turner of the Wheel] The Abhidhamma”, in Nyanaponika Thera, Hellmuth Hecker, edited by Bhikkhu Bodhi, Great Disciples of the Buddha: Their Lives, Their Works, Their Legacy, Boston, Mass.: Wisdom Publications; Kandy, Central Province: Buddhist Publication Society, published 1997, →ISBN, chapter 1 (Sāriputta: The Marshal of the Dhamma), page 45:

     According to the Atthasālinī, the commentary to the Dhammasaṅgaṇī, the Buddha preached the Abhidhamma in the Tāvatiṁsa heaven—the heaven of the Thirty-three—to the devas who had gathered from the ten-thousandfold world-system; […]

   • 1988 April, Tanith Lee, “The Fire Ride”, in The White Serpent (A Novel of Vis, 3; DAW Book Collectors No. 740), New York, N.Y.: DAW Books, Inc., →ISBN, book 2 (Alisaar—Part One), page 78:

     The night was full of roaring, like the ten-thousandfold throat of the stadium.

Adverb

ten-thousandfold (not comparable)

1. By a factor of ten thousand.

   Synonym: myriadfold

   • 1962, William A[ustin] Pryor, “[Elemental Sulfur] Reactions of Sulfur in Liquid Sulfur”, in Mechanisms of Sulfur Reactions, New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., →LCCN, page 7:

     They found that the viscosity increases gradually from the melting point of sulfur, 115 to 119° C (933), up to about 159° C, at which point the viscosity sharply increases ten-thousandfold (55, 1098).

   • 1987, J[ulius] T[homas] Fraser, “[Ask the stone to say: Time in the World of Matter] The Atemporal Kingdom of Light: Special Relativity Theory, the Physics of the Fastest Signals”, in Time, the Familiar Stranger, Amherst, Mass.: The University of Massachusetts Press, →ISBN, page 233:

     An electron, for instance, weighs 10⁻²⁷ grams. Even if its mass increases ten-thousandfold, it will still weigh only 10⁻²³ grams; […]

   • 2015, Giles Sparrow, “[Star death] Nova systems”, in Astronomy in Minutes: The Night Sky Explained in an Instant, New York, N.Y.: Quercus, →ISBN, page 336:

     Nova eruptions can see the star system’s overall light output multiply ten-thousandfold, and may be one-off events triggered during a very brief phase of the system’s evolution, or a longer-lived recurrent phenomenon, with eruptions every few decades or more.