eightfold
English
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| Cardinal: eight Ordinal: eighth Latinate ordinal: octonary Adverbial: eight times Multiplier: eightfold Latinate multiplier: octuple Distributive: octuply Group collective: eightsome Multipart collective: octuplet Greek or Latinate collective: octad Greek collective prefix: octo-, octa- Latinate collective prefix: octo- Fractional: eighth Latinate fractional prefix: octant- Elemental: octuplet Greek prefix: ogdo- Number of musicians: octet Number of years: octennium | ||
Etymology
From Middle English [Term?], from Old English eahtafeald. Equivalent to eight + -fold.
Adjective
eightfold (not comparable)
- Eight times as much; multiplied by eight.
- Containing eight parts.
- 2003, Richard Morris, The Last Sorcerers, page 213,
- The scheme, which Gell-Mann called the eightfold way, grouped mesons and baryons into families.
- 2003, Richard Morris, The Last Sorcerers, page 213,
Derived terms
Translations
eight times as much
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Adverb
eightfold (not comparable)
- By a factor of eight.
Translations
by a factor of eight
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