Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Thirty times as much or as many.
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- adjective
thirty times as great, or as many - adverb By a factor of thirty
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Examples
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The "thirtyfold" is designed to express the lowest degree of fruitfulness; the "hundredfold" the highest; and the
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The value of wetland rises more than thirtyfold once it is converted into farmland.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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Nowadays it is conventional to strive for at least thirtyfold coverage.
The $1,000 Genome Kevin Davies 2010
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Illumina sequences the genome to thirtyfold coverage and then delivers the sequence to the physician, who communicates the results to the consumer.
The $1,000 Genome Kevin Davies 2010
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One patient, a Portland woman, had come to his clinic with a blood count that had risen to nearly thirtyfold the normal number; her blood vessels were engorged with leukemia, her spleen virtually heaving with leukemic cells.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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AMONG THE FIRST KEY reformists to fall to conservative prosecutors was the respected mayor of Tehran, Gholam Hossein Karbaschi, who in eight years had overseen a thirtyfold increase in city revenue, set aside fifteen times more green space for parks, and built new highways to ease congestion in the second-most-polluted city in the world.
Let the Swords Encircle Me Scott Peterson 2010
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Around the world, the incidence of dengue fever has risen thirtyfold in the last 50 years, with increases across all key indicators: the number of cases, the frequency of epidemics, the severity of the disease, and the geographic range over which outbreaks occur.
Scott Dodd: Climate Change Drives Dengue Fever Re-Emergence in U.S. 2010
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The value of wetland rises more than thirtyfold once it is converted into farmland.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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The value of wetland rises more than thirtyfold once it is converted into farmland.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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One patient, a Portland woman, had come to his clinic with a blood count that had risen to nearly thirtyfold the normal number; her blood vessels were engorged with leukemia, her spleen virtually heaving with leukemic cells.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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