eightfold
/ˈeɪtfəʊld
/adjective
1Eight times as great or as numerous: an eightfold increase in expenditure...
- Last year there were 1,200, that's an eightfold increase.
- You and I know that an eightfold increase is hardly a cut, but that's not how it would play in Washington.
- There has been a significant increase in drug related deaths in England and Wales over the last twenty years with an eightfold increase in drug-related deaths between 1980 and 1998.
1.1Having eight parts or elements: an eightfold shape...
- The Buddha sits under the tree of life to achieve nirvana via the eightfold path.
- Gardens, especially those surrounding a mausoleum, are often laid out in an eightfold shape reminiscent of Paradise.
- It is an eightfold symmetric ringlike structure consisting of 30-50 different proteins, connecting the inner and outer nuclear membranes.
adverb
By eight times; to eight times the number or amount: claims have grown eightfold in ten years...
- Escalating financial demands by the company's mainland partner scotched the deal when the price to maintain the relationship quickly went up eightfold despite earlier agreements.
- He is demonstrating the skills to turn this large chunk of humanity into paying customers, boosting the customer count eightfold, from 375,000 when he arrived two years ago.
- Capacity rose eightfold, from 4,000 to 32,000 tons.
