Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Consisting of eight parts or members.
- adjective Eight times as much in size, strength, number, or amount.
- noun An eightfold amount or number.
- transitive & intransitive verb To multiply or be multiplied by eight.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Eightfold.
- To multiply by eight; increase eightfold.
- Having eight units; specifically, noting a motor-car with eight cylinders which drive a common crank-shaft.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Eightfold.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
eightfold - noun An eightfold amount or number
- verb To
multiply byeight
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having eight units or components
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Suppose world per-capita income were to octuple in the next 90 years, as it did, roughly, in the last 90.
Who to Blame for Natural Disasters Matt Ridley 2010
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It was not easy to ignore Tashayamp, half an octuple of soldiers, and four of Winterhome's small, flat-faced natives, including one in a wheeled cage.
I Don’t Understand ? Jack Varnell 2010
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If you're nervous about handling a whisk or don't know how many mushrooms are enough in my experience, think of a number and octuple it, you might be better off with evening classes.
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Behind her was a full octuple of warriors, all armed.
I Don’t Understand ? Jack Varnell 2010
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But Preetheeteh-damb was beginning to shiver, and it comforted him that his octuple were all spaceborn.
I Don’t Understand ? Jack Varnell 2010
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His celebratory plans are limited to drinking: "He would start with an octuple whiskey."
Five Best 2010
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In my case, being a vegetarian and all, I'd require nothing less than octuple cheese.
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"Lead me," said Chintithpit-mang, and he went to rejoin his octuple.
I Don’t Understand ? Jack Varnell 2010
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Richard writes unpublishable modernist monsters that induce migraines: "'Untitled,' with its octuple time scheme and its rotating crew of sixteen unreliable narrators, sounded like a departure, but it wasn't."
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Double the radius, and you roughly octuple the number of stars to ransack.
The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989
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