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[ adverb ] by a factor of four
Synonyms Examples "the price of gasoline has increased fourfold over the past two years" Used in print (Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)For_example , the BBB has reported it was receiving four_times as many inquiries about quack devices and 10 times as_many complaints compared with two years ago . (J. F. Vedder, "Micrometeorites", in Francis S. J...)Note that the mass threshold is four_times that of 1958_Alpha and that the flux is one_fifth as large . |
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