Seventeenfold

adj, adv

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    By a factor of seventeen. not-comparable

    "a seventeenfold increase"

  2. 2
    Having seventeen parts. not-comparable

    "For this (animal sacrifice) there are seventeen kindling verses; for the year is seventeenfold—there are twelve months and five seasons […]"

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

    "[The] exports from Newcastle were [tripled], from Sunderland quadrupled, and from Stockton multipled seventeenfold !"

Example

More examples

"The Rapid Growth of Strip Mining Seventeenfold Increase Since 1914"

Etymology

From seventeen + -fold.

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