threefold

English

Etymology

From Middle English threfold, from Old English þrīfeald. Equivalent to three +‎ -fold

Pronunciation

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Adjective

threefold (not comparable)

1. three times as great
2. triple

Synonyms

• (three times as great): thrissome; see also Thesaurus:threefold
• (triple): ternary, trine; see also Thesaurus:triple

Translations

three times as great

• Czech: trojnásobný (cs)
• Faroese: trífalt
• Finnish: kolminkertainen (fi)
• French: trois fois plus grand
• Georgian: სამმაგი (sammagi)
• Hebrew: מְשֻׁלָּשׁ (he) m (meshulásh)
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• Irish: ^{(please verify)} trí-aonta
• Italian: triplo (it) m
• Maori: tōtoru
• Russian: троекратный (ru) m (trojekrátnij)
• Telugu: మూడింతలు (te) (mūḍintalu)

triple

• Finnish: kolminkertainen (fi)
• French: triple (fr)
• Greek: τριπλός (el) (triplós)
• Hungarian: háromszoros (hu)
• Irish: ^{(please verify)} trí-aonta
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• Italian: triplo (it) m
• Latin: triplus, triplex
• Maori: tōtoru
• Russian: тройной (ru) m (trojnój)
• Spanish: triple (es)

Adverb

threefold (not comparable)

1. by a factor of three

Synonyms

• thrice, trebly; see also Thesaurus:thrice

Translations

by a factor of three

• Czech: trojnásobně
• Finnish: kolminkertaisesti
• French: triplement (fr)
• German: dreifach (de)
• Italian: tripletta (it) f
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• Maori: tōtoru
• Polish: trzykrotnie (pl)
• Russian: троекратно (ru) (trojekrátno), трижды (ru) (trízhdy)
• Spanish: por triplicado

Noun

threefold (plural threefolds)

A threefold, the twisted cubic.

1. (mathematics) An algebraic variety of degree 3.
   • 2015, Xun Yu, “McKay correspondence and new Calabi-Yau threefolds”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[1]:

     In this way, we find some new pairs $(h^{1,1},\;h^{2,1})$ of Hodge numbers of Calabi-Yau threefolds.

Alternative forms

• three-fold
• 3-fold