Milliardfold

adj, adv

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    A milliard times so. not-comparable

    "The longer such a state of affairs dragged on, the greater became the contradiction between the needs of economic and cultural development and the policy of the Government, which had developed its mighty ‘milliard-fold’ inertia."

Adverb
  1. 1
    By a factor of a milliard. not-comparable

    "“In very few years,” says Bertholt, “insects, at their rapid rate of increase, would multiply a milliardfold, and strata would be formed of the bodies of worms and grubs.”"

Example

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"The longer such a state of affairs dragged on, the greater became the contradiction between the needs of economic and cultural development and the policy of the Government, which had developed its mighty ‘milliard-fold’ inertia."

Etymology

From milliard + -fold.

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