Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

seventeenfold

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: sev-en-teen-fold
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

By a factor of seventeen.

adj

Having seventeen parts.

adv

By a factor of seventeen.

Example Sentences

"a seventeenfold increase"
"The Rapid Growth of Strip Mining Seventeenfold Increase Since 1914"
"The decrease in toxicity was seventeenfold […]"
"The number of adolescents seeking treatment for drug addiction for the first time went up from 4.9 per 100,000 in 1991 to 84.5 in 2000, also a seventeenfold increase (figure V)."
"For this (animal sacrifice) there are seventeen kindling verses; for the year is seventeenfold—there are twelve months and five seasons […]"
"The spectrum in Fig. 7a shows a clear maximum for seventeenfold rotational symmetry, […]"

Etymology

From seventeen + -fold.

Questions

What does seventeenfold mean?: By a factor of seventeen.
Where does seventeenfold come from?: From seventeen + -fold.

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