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seventeenfold

seventeenfold

English

Adjective

seventeenfold (not comparable)

  1. By a factor of seventeen.
    a seventeenfold increase
  2. Having seventeen parts.

Adverb

seventeenfold (not comparable)

  1. By a factor of seventeen.
    • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 160:
      The value of imports of sugar and indigo from Saint-Domingue alone increased seventeenfold between Utrecht and the outbreak of the Seven Years War in 1756.