ten-thousandfold
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.67 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
adv
By a factor of ten thousand.
Example Sentences
- "The outburst of novæ cannot be explained in this manner, as some have suggested, for it could not possibly produce a ten-thousandfold increase in light; […]"
- "Comparing the C_(Ag⁺) in this case with that of Example 1, where no excess of the NH₃ was present, we find that the value has decreased from 5.5 × 10⁻⁴ to 6.8 × 10⁻⁸, a ten-thousandfold decrease."
- "It is to be noted that the results agree with the simple relation given by Eq. (1) for as much as a ten-thousandfold change in δ_F."
- "For both reasons taken together—his outstanding merit and his ten-thousandfold poverty—he deserves to have his meals in the prytaneion."
- "How is it, then, that with the first class of receiver, the eye, we are enabled, unless indeed we be colour-blind, to see all the beautiful and glorious varieties of nature in its ten-thousandfold hues; while the other receiver, the photographic plate, gives us but black and white?"
- "The ten-thousandfold law of punishment is rigorously enforced against every creature, man included."
Etymology
From ten thousand + -fold.