hundred-thousandfold
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.67 in modern English
32
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
6
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
By a factor of one hundred thousand.
adv
By a factor of one hundred thousand.
Example Sentences
- "A crime of ... a hundred-thousandfold from worshipping [the Buddha shall undoubtedly be expiated]."
- "Thus, a hundred-thousandfold dilution of pollen would equal 10 [units of pollen], a thousandfold dilution would equal 1000 [units of pollen], and so on."
- "This refers to the obligation to preform a hundred-thousandfold recitation of the refuge formula (skyabs 'gro, refuge in the Buddha, the Law, and the Community)[.]"
- "Similarly, why is it that when Goldhaber speaks, his attention gain is "illusorily magnified" by an audience of 500 while Oprah's is magnified [a] hundred-thousandfold more?"
- "Their qualities, at first, increase a hundred-thousandfold,"
- "[Companies] began selling robots that reduced the cost of reading DNA letters by ... one hundred-thousandfold."
Etymology
From hundred thousand + -fold.