tenfold
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| Cardinal: ten Ordinal: tenth Latinate ordinal: denary Adverbial: ten times Multiplier: tenfold Latinate multiplier: decuple Collective: tensome Multiuse collective: decuplet Greek or Latinate collective: decad, decade Metric collective prefix: deca- Greek collective prefix: deca- Latinate collective prefix: deca- Fractional: tenth Metric fractional prefix: deci- Elemental: decuplet Greek prefix: decato- Number of musicians: decet Number of years: decade, decennium | ||||
Etymology
From Middle English tenfold, tenfolde, from Old English tīenfeald. Equivalent to ten + -fold.
Adjective
tenfold (not comparable)
- Ten times as much or as many.
- 1728, James Thomson, “Spring”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC, page 198, lines 923–925:
- [F]ull of death, and fierce vvith tenfold froſt, / The long long night, incumbent o'er their heads, / Falls horrible.
- Containing ten parts.
Translations
ten times as much or as many
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containing ten parts
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Adverb
tenfold (not comparable)
- By ten times as much.
- 1896, William Allen Sylvester, Modern Carpentry and Building, page 142, "But, since we have increased the original value of 26 tenfold its original value, we must increase the original result tenfold : ten times 2 equal 20, the required answer."
Translations
by ten times as much
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Verb
tenfold (third-person singular simple present tenfolds, present participle tenfolding, simple past and past participle tenfolded)
Translations
increase to ten times as much
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