googolfold

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From googol +‎ -fold.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡuːɡəlfoʊld/

Adverb[edit]

googolfold (not comparable)

  1. (rare) By a factor of one googol.
    • 1999 November 6, chance wolf, “Re: Animefantastique Ends Publication”, in rec.arts.animation‎[1] (Usenet), retrieved 2014-12-10:
      There are people out there cornerning the market on these things hoping ol' Ty will retire them and somehow disappear from the face of the earth - thereby increasing their value a googolfold.
    • 2004 January 19, Robert Shaw, “Re: Interesting non-FTL interstellar settings?”, in rec.arts.sf.written‎[2] (Usenet), retrieved 2014-12-10:
      To get the intensity of the light travelling the loop we must combine the contributions from photons circling it once, twice, thrice, fourfold, ..., a googolfold […]
    • 2009, Joel Marks, Ought Implies Kant‎[3], page 39:
      The situation is about to get a googol-
      fold       worse.

Related terms[edit]

Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=googolfold&oldid=54428791"