thousandfold

English[edit]

**English numbers ^(edit)**
		10,000^{[a], [b]}
← 100		1,000
		100
Cardinal: thousand Ordinal: thousandth Multiplier: thousandfold Group collective: chiliad Metric collective prefix: kilo- Metric fractional prefix: milli- Number of years: millennium, kiloannum, kiloyear

thousandfold (not comparable)

Multiplied by one thousand (1000), repeated a thousand times.
The changes to the algorithm resulted in a thousandfold increase in efficiency, earning the engineer a small brass plaque.
- 1857, [Thomas Hughes], “The War of Independence”, in Tom Brown’s School Days. […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, part I, page 185:
  [T]he fresh brave school-life, so full of games, adventures, and good fellowship, so ready at forgetting, so capacious at enjoying, so bright at forecasting, outweighed a thousandfold their troubles with the master of their form, and the occasional ill-usage of the big boys in the house.
Having one thousand parts or members.
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Knights and Squires”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 125:
  Looking into his eyes, you seemed to see there the yet lingering images of those thousand-fold perils he had calmly confronted through life.

Repeated a thousand times

thousandfold (not comparable)

By a factor of a thousand