hundredfold

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   one hundred times as great or as numerous

   The new sensor provided a hundredfold increase in measurement precision.

2. 2
   adv

   by a factor of one hundred

   The colony's population grew hundredfold over several generations.

From Middle English hundredfold, a compound of hundred + -fold. The multiplicative suffix descends from Old English -feald and indicates how many times a quantity has been multiplied, as in twofold and tenfold.

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