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English
Etymology
From seventeen + -fold.
Adjective
seventeenfold (not comparable)
- By a factor of seventeen.
- a seventeenfold increase
1928, O. E. Kiessling, F. G. Tryon, L. Mann, The Economics of Strip Coal Mining, page 3:The Rapid Growth of Strip Mining
Seventeenfold Increase Since 1914
1950, American Cancer Society, Collected Reprints , volume 1, page 170:The decrease in toxicity was seventeenfold […]
2003, E. A. Koshkina, “Trends in the prevalence of psychoactive substance use in the Russian Federation”, in Bulletin on Narcotics, page 126:The number of adolescents seeking treatment for drug addiction for the first time went up from 4.9 per 100,000 in 1991 to 84.5 in 2000, also a seventeenfold increase (figure V).
- Having seventeen parts.
1894, “Sixth Kânda”, in Julius Eggeling, transl., The Satapatha Brâhmana, volume 3, page 174:For this (animal sacrifice) there are seventeen kindling verses; for the year is seventeenfold—there are twelve months and five seasons […]
1971, J. T. Finch, “Electron Microscopy of Proteins”, in Hans Neurath, Robert L. Hill, editors, The Proteins, volume 1, page 432:The spectrum in Fig. 7a shows a clear maximum for seventeenfold rotational symmetry, […]
1976, H. W. Bodewitz, “The Agnihotra in Relation with Other Sacrifices”, in The Daily Evening and Morning Offering (Agnihotra) According to the Brāhmaṇas, page 131:The vājapeya is seventeenfold; it has seventeen stotras.
Adverb
seventeenfold (not comparable)
- By a factor of seventeen.
- 1843, unknown, Local Collections, printed by William Douglas, Resurrection of the Tory Tax on Coal, p. 46:
- exports from Newcastle were , from Sunderland quadrupled, and from Stockton multipled seventeenfold !
1992, Prudue University, Daily Report: Central Eurasia, page 33:Since there was some kind of trifling percentage added to the bank ... prices rose about twentyfold and saving decreased around seventeenfold.
2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 160:The value of imports of sugar and indigo from Saint-Domingue alone increased seventeenfold between Utrecht and the outbreak of the Seven Years War in 1756.