Meaning of FOURFOLD
| Pronunciation: | | 'fowr`fowld
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- [adv] by a factor of four; "the price of gasoline has increased fourfold over the past two years"
- [adj] four times as great or many; "a fourfold increase in the dosage"
- [adj] having four units or components; "quadruple rhythm has four beats per measure"; "quadruplex wire"
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| | Synonyms: | | four times, multiple, quadruple, quadruplex, quadruplicate |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Four"fold`\, a. & adv. [AS. fe['o]werfeold.]
Four times; quadruple; as, a fourfold division.
He shall restore the lamb fourfold. --2 Sam. xii.
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\Four"fold`\, n.
Four times as many or as much.
\Four"fold`\, v. t.
To make four times as much or as many, as an assessment,; to
quadruple.
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