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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
millionfold

1721, from million + -fold.

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millionfold

a. A million times so; as, a millionfold dilution, a millionfold increase. adv. By a factor of a million.

WordNet
millionfold

adv. by a factor of a million; "it increased a millionfold" [syn: a million times]

Usage examples of "millionfold".

But it seemed to me that they were more offensive a millionfold than White fags would have been.

The great bonfires of last night had been kindled at the four corners of the square, and the leaping scarlet light repeated itself a millionfold in their glittering eyes, like the eyes of the rats in the vaults.

How much worse, a millionfold more incomprehensible, the passage from monocot to monogamy.

Bienville, the brother, also deserves remembrance both in France and America--dismissed once but exonerated, returning later to succeed the pessimistic Cadillac and to lay the foundations of New Orleans on the only dry spot he had found on his first journey up the river, there to plant the seed of the fruits and melons and pumpkins of the garden on Dauphin Island, that were to bring forth millionfold, though they have not yet entirely crowded out the cypress and the palmetto, and the fleur-de-lis that still grows wild and flowers brilliantly at certain seasons.

Suddenly he realized what it was: his ability to sense and make patterns out of inchoate probabilities, but magnified a millionfold by the combination of the mind arrays and his new cyberneural interface.

The speed with which that new virus reproduces is phenomenal, and its rate of reproduction is growing a millionfold every human generation.

Tyree, fainting into death, hears his cry echoed and amplified a millionfold, and knows that he has reached.

Even so, because wherever ambitions, vanities, and follies are multiplied by millionfold contact, calamity is there.

Well, when it was discovered that there were millions of times as many planets in the galaxy as could be accounted for by a Wellington Incident occurring once in two times ten to the tenth years or so, some way had to be figured out to increase, millionfold, the number of such occurrences.

If it is only through self-awareness and inner adjustment that I can restrict the hammer in my hands to its proper role, I must multiply the effort a millionfold when dealing with a vastly more complex technology -- one expressing in a much more insistent manner its own urgencies.

The crucial point here is that, just like the average path length, the clustering plunges almost a millionfold as we morph the network from one end of the spectrum to the other.

Filippov, and an American, Joseph Mather, the device first compresses electrical energy a millionfold into a sub-millimeter-size donut of filamentary plasma called a plasmoid, and then collapses the associated magnetic field to shoot out two intense, high-energy beams, each in the order of a micron (one ten-thousandth of a centimeter) wide—electrons in one direction and ions in the other.