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Fourfold
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective Fourfold has 2 senses
- fourfold(s = adj.all) four-fold, quadruple - four times as great or many; "a fourfold increase in the dosage"
- fourfold(s = adj.all) four-fold, quadruple, quadruplex, quadruplicate - having four units or components; "quadruple rhythm has four beats per measure"; "quadruplex wire"
Adverbial Fourfold has 1 sense
- fourfold(r = adv.all) four times - by a factor of four; "the price of gasoline has increased fourfold over the past two years"
CIDE DICTIONARY
Fourfold, a. & adv. [AS. feówerfeold.].
Four times; quadruple; as, a fourfold division. [1913 Webster]
"He shall restore the lamb fourfold."
[1913 Webster]
Fourfold, n.
Four times as many or as much. [1913 Webster]
Fourfold, v. t.
To make four times as much or as many, as an assessment; to quadruple. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Fourfold, adj. & adv.
1 four times as much or as many.
2 consisting of four parts.
3 amounting to four.
1 four times as much or as many.
2 consisting of four parts.
3 amounting to four.
ROGET THESAURUS
Fourfold
Quadruplication
N quadruplication, fourfold, four times, quadrable, quadrumanous, quadruple, quadruplicate, quadrible, fourth, quadrifoliate, quadrifoliolate, quadrigeminal, quadrigeminate, quadriplanar, quadriserial, four times, in the fourth place, fourthly.
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