Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Ten times as much or as many.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • In tens; consisting of ten in one; ten times repeated.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective containing ten parts
  • adjective ten times as much
  • adverb by ten times as much

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective containing ten or ten parts
  • adverb by ten times as much
  • adjective containing ten or ten parts

Etymologies

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ten +‎ -fold

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Examples

  • Held in "tenfold chains" Orc claims: my spirit soars;

    Repetition, Representation and Revolution: Deleuze and Blake's _America_ 2008

  • But a policy of this kind would merely mean postponing the evil day, which would soon return, through another door, in tenfold strength.

    Andrei Sakharov - Nobel Lecture 1975

  • The laws which excuse, on any occasions, the ignorance of their subjects, confess their own imperfections: the civil jurisprudence, as it was abridged by Justinian, still continued a mysterious science, and a profitable trade, and the innate perplexity of the study was involved in tenfold darkness by the private industry of the practitioners.

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • National Public Radio, meanwhile, saw a "tenfold" increase in its mobile traffic with the iPhone, says Kinsey Wilson, senior vice president, so it's a natural that it wants to be on board with a newly optimized app for the iPad.

    App developers are gearing up for Apple's iPad 2010

  • He estimated client calls to the firm have increased "tenfold" in the last three to six months.

    Labor Fears Spawn Boom In Workplace Legal Advice 2009

  • The bank raised rates about three months ago and has increased the financial reporting it requires "tenfold" compared to last year.

    Halting Recovery Divides America in Two 2009

  • In the last three years, the school's white enrollment jumped from 10 percent to about 17 percent, and parent involvement has increased "tenfold," Gonnella said.

    Articles 2009

  • He said his knowledge of the game has improved "tenfold" since his remarkable 2006 season.

    Rivals.com: College Football News, Schedules and Scores Headlines 2008

  • "tenfold", India and Pakistan would "respond with their own build-ups," and Russia's "only rational response ... would be to maintain, and strengthen, the existing nuclear force."

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2008

  • Over the next three decades, the number of women competing in varsity collegiate athletics grew five-fold, to nearly 170,000, and the number competing in high school sports grew tenfold, to more than 3 million.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

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