thousandfold
English
edit10,000[a], [b] | ||||
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Cardinal: thousand Ordinal: thousandth Multiplier: thousandfold Group collective: chiliad Metric collective prefix: kilo- Metric fractional prefix: milli- Number of years: millennium, kiloannum, kiloyear |
Etymology
editFrom Middle English thousendfold, from Old English þūsendfeald, from Proto-Germanic *þūsundīfalþaz, corresponding to thousand + -fold. Cognate with Dutch duizendvoud, duizendvoudig, German tausendfältig, Danish tusindfold, Swedish tusendfalt, tusendfaltig, Icelandic þúsundfalt.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editthousandfold (not comparable)
- Multiplied by one thousand (1000), repeated a thousand times.
- The changes to the algorithm resulted in a thousandfold increase in efficiency, earning the engineer a small brass plaque.
- 1857, [Thomas Hughes], “The War of Independence”, in Tom Brown’s School Days. […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, part I, page 185:
- [T]he fresh brave school-life, so full of games, adventures, and good fellowship, so ready at forgetting, so capacious at enjoying, so bright at forecasting, outweighed a thousandfold their troubles with the master of their form, and the occasional ill-usage of the big boys in the house.
- Having one thousand parts or members.
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Knights and Squires”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 125:
- Looking into his eyes, you seemed to see there the yet lingering images of those thousand-fold perils he had calmly confronted through life.
Translations
editRepeated a thousand times
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Adverb
editthousandfold (not comparable)
- By a factor of a thousand.
Translations
editBy a factor of a thousand
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