tenfold

See also: ten-fold

English

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Cardinal: ten     Ordinal: tenth     Abbreviated ordinal: 10th     Latinate ordinal: denary     Adverbial: ten times     Multiplier: tenfold     Latinate multiplier: decuple     Germanic collective: tensome     Collective of n parts: decuplet     Greek or Latinate collective: decad, decade     Metric collective prefix: deca-     Greek collective prefix: deca-     Latinate collective prefix: deca-     Fractional: tenth     Metric fractional prefix: deci-     Elemental: decuplet     Number of musicians: decet     Number of years: decade, decennium     Quantile: decile, decentile

Alternative forms

• ten-fold

Etymology

From Middle English tenfold, tenfolde, from Old English tīenfeald, equivalent to ten +‎ -fold.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛnfoʊld/

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Adjective

tenfold (not comparable)

1. Ten times as much or as many.
   • a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Winter”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC, page 198, lines 923–925:

     [F]ull of death, and fierce vvith tenfold froſt, / The long long night, incumbent o'er their heads, / Falls horrible.

   • 2001 May 7, Margot Roosevelt et al., “The War Against The War On Drugs”, in TIME‎^[1], archived from the original on 1 February 2012:

     Some 460,000 Americans are behind bars for drug offenses--a tenfold increase over 1980.

2. Containing ten parts.

Synonyms

• (containing ten parts): denary
• (ten times as much): decuple

Derived terms

• tenfoldness

Translations

ten times as much or as many

• Bulgarian: десеторен (desetoren)
• Catalan: dècuple
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 十倍的 (shí bèi de)

• Esperanto: dekoble
• Finnish: kymmenkertainen
• French: décuple (fr)
• Hindi: दसगुना (hi) (dasgunā)
• Hungarian: tízszeres (hu), tízszer akkora/annyi
• Italian: decuplo (it)
• Latin: decuplus
• Polish: dziesięciokrotny (pl)
• Portuguese: décuplo (pt)
• Russian: десятикратный (ru) (desjatikratnyj)
• Swedish: tiofaldig
• Telugu: పదింతలు (te) (padintalu)
• Welsh: decplyg, ar ei ddegfed

containing ten parts

• Bulgarian: десеторен (desetoren)
• Finnish: kymmenosainen
• Hungarian: tízrészes, tízes (hu), tízrétű
• Italian: decuplo (it)
• Polish: dziesięcioczęściowy
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: десетострук m

  Latin: desetostruk m

• Welsh: decplyg

Adverb

tenfold (not comparable)

1. By ten times as much.
   • 1896, William Allen Sylvester, Modern Carpentry and Building, page 142, "But, since we have increased the original value of 26 tenfold its original value, we must increase the original result tenfold : ten times 2 equal 20, the required answer."
   • 1987 August 15, Stephen William Gumpl, “Refusing To Become A Piece”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 5, page 4:

     I am here [in prison] for committing a crime, yet I see the state officials commit crimes that are ten fold worse and they do it without ramifications.

Translations

by ten times as much

• Bulgarian: десеторно (bg) (desetorno)
• Dutch: vertienvoudigen (nl)
• Finnish: kymmenkertaisesti
• French: décupler (fr)
• Hebrew: עֲשֶׂרֶת מוֹנִים (he) ('aséret moním)
• Hindi: दसगुना (hi) (dasgunā)
• Hungarian: tízszeresen, tízszeresére
• Italian: decuplicare (it)
• Occitan: desenar
• Polish: dziesięciokrotnie (pl), dziesięciokroć (pl)
• Portuguese: decuplicar (pt), decuplar (pt)
• Russian: десятикратно (ru) (desjatikratno)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: десетоструко

  Latin: desetostruko

• Swedish: tiofalt (sv)
• Welsh: yn ddecplyg, ar ei ddegfed

Verb

tenfold (third-person singular simple present tenfolds, present participle tenfolding, simple past and past participle tenfolded)

1. To increase to ten times as much; to multiply by ten.

Translations

increase to ten times as much

• Catalan: decuplicar (ca)
• Finnish: kymmenkertaistaa
• Hindi: दसगुना (hi) (dasgunā)
• Hungarian: (transitively) megtízszerez (hu), (intransitively) megtízszereződik (hu), tízszeresére nő
• Polish: zdziesięciokrotnić pf, zdziesięciokrotniać impf
• Romanian: înzeci (ro)
• Spanish: decuplicar (es), decuplar (es)

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