Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Four times numbered or reckoned; quadruple: as, a fourfold division.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Four times as many or as much.
- Four times; quadruple.
- transitive verb To make four times as much or as many, as an assessment; to quadruple.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
four times asgreat - adjective
quadruple - adverb by a
factor of four
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having four units or components
- adjective four times as great or many
- adjective having four units or components
- adjective four times as great or many
- adverb by a factor of four
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Examples
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To see things in fourfold is to open up an infinite world of possibilities.
The Fourfold Visions of William Blake and Martin Heidegger 2005
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Sometimes indeed their young warriors closed in with us, and were as often vanquished; but they never failed to repay us fourfold from a safe distance.
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His campaign announced Friday that donations so far this week have totaled $1.6 million, described as a fourfold increase over the average take for an entire month.
Herman Cain Campaigns As Sexual Harassment Allegations Build 2011
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This fourfold dimensionality of sense forms the transcendental context and background in relation to which things become comprehensible and significant for human beings – that is, the fourfold is precisely Being which in withdrawing itself lets beings come forth into presence.
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This fourfold dimensionality of sense forms the transcendental context and background in relation to which things become comprehensible and significant for human beings – that is, the fourfold is precisely Being which in withdrawing itself lets beings come forth into presence.
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His campaign announced on Friday that donations so far this week have totalled $1.6 million, described as a fourfold increase over the average take for an entire month.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2011
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Not only did he show that science offers no support to the "fourfold" or the
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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Glancing at this one, the first thing that jumps out to me is a 14\% increase is later called a "fourfold" increase.
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Glancing at this one, the first thing that jumps out to me is a 14\% increase is later called a "fourfold" increase.
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3 The 'fourfold' does not signify anything other than the constellations - no longer of entities, nor even of presence and absence - of the event in which the particular 'presences'.
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