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  • adjective By a factor of sixteen.
  • adverb By a factor of sixteen.

Etymologies

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sixteen +‎ -fold

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Examples

  • Whilst at the same time, increasing its total commercial lending sixteenfold to almost £9bn.

    The Co-operative's Ethical Operating Plan commitments 2011

  • Globally, the number of mobile banking users is expected to surge more than sixteenfold, to 894 million by 2015, according to Berg Insight, an industry research firm based in Stockholm.

    Carol Realini: Davos Hot Topic -- Inclusive Growth Through Mobile Banking Carol Realini 2011

  • Globally, the number of mobile banking users is expected to surge more than sixteenfold, to 894 million by 2015, according to Berg Insight, an industry research firm based in Stockholm.

    Carol Realini: Davos Hot Topic -- Inclusive Growth Through Mobile Banking Carol Realini 2011

  • Globally, the number of mobile banking users is expected to surge more than sixteenfold, to 894 million by 2015, according to Berg Insight, an industry research firm based in Stockholm.

    Carol Realini: Davos Hot Topic -- Inclusive Growth Through Mobile Banking Carol Realini 2011

  • Nor do I think that the Army ever had cause to regret that the supply proposed by Lord Kitchener in July, 1915, was increased sixteenfold.

    The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010

  • Oak Ridge Labs puts it at 1.2 million cars by 2008, a sixteenfold increase from this year.

    GREEN & MEAN 2007

  • A splendid, sixteenfold error in multiplication which gives so much beauty to our awakening and makes life begin again on a different scale, like those great changes of rhythm which, in music, mean that in an andante a quaver has the same duration as a minim in a prestissimo, and which are unknown in our waking state.

    The Captive 2003

  • Then a sixteenfold blow hammered down on the platoon.

    Panzer Aces Kurowski, Franz 1992

  • Industrial production of some member countries grew sixfold from 1950 to 1973 and in others it increased up to sixteenfold.

    INAUGURAL SESSION OF THE 79TH CEMA MEETING 1977

  • States alone has now reached 100 million dollars per year, an increase of sixteenfold in a decade, and similar efforts are probably being exerted in the Soviet Union and other countries.

    Linus Pauling - Nobel Lecture 1962

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