thousandfold

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   one thousand times as large, numerous, or intense

   The new detector produced a thousandfold increase in sensitivity.

2. 2
   adv

   by a factor of one thousand, or hyperbolically by a very great amount

   Her relief grew a thousandfold when the missing climbers returned safely.

From Middle English thousendfold and Old English thusendfeald, formed from the native words now represented by thousand and -fold. The suffix -fold expresses multiplication, as in twofold and hundredfold.

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