fourfold
Use Fourfold in a sentence
adjective
1.
comprising four parts or members.
2.
four times as great or as much.
adverb
3.
in fourfold measure.
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| —adj | |
| 1. | equal to or having four times as many or as much |
| 2. | composed of four parts |
| —adv | |
| 3. | by or up to four times as many or as much |
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Example sentences
Over the period, its emissions are expected to increase over fourfold.
But doubling the diameter of the telescope's mirror, without changing its design, would increase its weight fourfold.
Since the turn of the century, the number of democracies in the world has grown fourfold.
The reason for this happy state of affairs is fourfold.
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