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sevenfold

[ sev-uhn-fohld ]

adjective

  1. comprising seven parts or members.
  2. seven times as great or as much.


adverb

  1. until seven times as many or as great:

    multiplied sevenfold.

sevenfold

/ ˈsɛvənˌfəʊld /

adjective

  1. equal to or having seven times as many or as much
  2. composed of seven parts


adverb

  1. by or up to seven times as many or as much

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Word History and Origins

Origin of sevenfold1

before 1000; Middle English; Old English seofonfeald. See seven, -fold

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Example Sentences

Flynn’s prayer included invocations to “sevenfold rays” and “legions,” two phrases that struck some of Flynn’s followers as strange.

Over the past year, they have tallied 22 deaths, a sevenfold increase.

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This enabled them to speed up the training process more than sevenfold.

Much of it came from Bolivia and Peru, both of which saw a sevenfold increase in quinoa exports between 2005 and 2013.

The work, which is being presented this week at NeurIPS, the largest annual AI research conference, could increase the speed and cut the energy costs needed to train deep learning by more than sevenfold.

The risk jumps sevenfold for a first-time mother and tenfold in pregnancies over 41 weeks in duration.

It has enjoyed an epic run, and increased sevenfold between October 2009 and last summer.

By this week the price of an ounce of gold was close to $1,800, a nearly sevenfold increase over 2001.

In three years at Facebook, the site has grown sevenfold, its valuation soaring into the range of $50 billion.

Such things happen to all flesh, from man even to beast, and upon sinners are sevenfold more.

The French farmers calculate upon reaping about sevenfold; if they sow one bushel, they reap, between six and seven.

I had taken upon myself a vow not to return until I had gained sevenfold the thousand dirhems with which I set forth.

Plenteous of grace, descend from high, Rich in thy sevenfold energy!

And on the mainland behind the whole sevenfold system ran the loop of railway.

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