ninefold
/ˈnʌɪnfəʊld
/adjective
1Nine times as great or as numerous: a ninefold increase in the amount of traffic...
- Curtin calculates the growth of world trade by a factor of 54.5 from $700 million in 1700 to $38,150 million in 1914, including a ninefold increase 1820-80.
- There was a fourfold increase in adverse outcome, a fourfold increase in spontaneous abortion, and a ninefold increase in major congenital malformation in women with a glycated haemoglobin concentration above 7.5% at booking.
- The package insert descriptions reported as ‘slight’ a ninefold increase in something the marketers called ‘Primary Pulmonary Hypertension.’
1.1Having nine parts or elements.He has set Hong Kong on a ninefold path to nowhere with his report to Beijing outlining conditions for democratic reform in Hong Kong....
- We then had the Collect for Purity, after which the choir sang a musical setting of a ninefold Kyrie.
- The structure was found to be highly symmetric with C9, ninefold rotational symmetry.
adverb
By nine times; to nine times the number or amount: consumption increased ninefold...
- Since 1995-96, Alexander says, Labour has doubled the total budget but increased the public-transport spend ninefold.
- Seizures of counterfeit goods have increased ninefold in the European Union, just since 1998.
- Introduced three years ago, the payout incentive - sponsored by a local property group - has helped improve the school's GCSEs ninefold in the last four years.
Rhymes
- cybrid
- cycad
- Cyclades
- Cycladic
- cyclamate
- cyclamen
- cycle
- cycle battery
- metron
- metronidazole
- metronome
- metronome mark
- metronomic
- metronomically
- metronymic
- metropathia
- metroplex
- metropole
- metropolis
- metropolitan
- metropolitanate
- metropolitan county
- metropolitan district
- metropolitanisation
- metropolitanise