seventeenfold

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English[edit]

English numbers (edit)
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    Cardinal: seventeen
    Ordinal: seventeenth
    Adverbial: seventeen times
    Multiplier: seventeenfold
    Group collective: seventeensome

Etymology[edit]

From seventeen +‎ -fold.

Adjective[edit]

seventeenfold (not comparable)

  1. 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 [][1], 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).
  2. 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[edit]

seventeenfold (not comparable)

  1. By a factor of seventeen.
    • 1843, unknown, Local Collections, printed by William Douglas, Resurrection of the Tory Tax on Coal, p. 46:
      [The] exports from Newcastle were [tripled], 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.