If your salary increases fourfold when you get a new job, it means that your income is four times larger than it used to be. Use the adjective fourfold when something is four times as big, or when it's been multiplied by four. You're almost always going to see fourfold accompanied by the word increase.
1. (Mathematics) equal to or having 10 times as many or as much: a tenfold increase in population.
ten times as great; tenfold.
adjective. having twenty sections, aspects, divisions, kinds, etc. being twenty times as large, great, many, etc.
The term “tenfold” is not in the Bible. There is “fourfold,” “sixtyfold,” and “hundredfold,” which simply means a multiplication by that number. 10-fold is the biblical way of saying ten times.
1. equal to or having 10 times as many or as much. a tenfold increase in population. 2. composed of 10 parts.
1 : being 10 times as great or as many.
1 : having three parts or members : triple a threefold purpose. 2 : being three times as great or as many a threefold increase.
How to Calculate Fold
- Divide the new amount of an item by the original amount to determine the fold change for an increase.
- Divide the original amount by the new amount to determine the fold change for a decrease.
- Find the fold change in experiment results by dividing the data from the experimental group by the data from the control group.
if there is a two fold increase (fold change=2, Log2FC=1) between A and B, then A is twice as big as B (or A is 200% of B). If there is a two fold decrease (fold change = 0.5, Log2FC= -1) between A and B, then A is half as big as B (or B is twice as big as A, or A is 50% of B).
Wondering how to hyphenate the English word tenfold? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.
What is another word for tenfold?
| decuple | denary |
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| decagonal | decennial |
| ten | decimal |
1 : having six units or members. 2 : being six times as great or as many.
Old English faldan (Mercian), fealdan (West Saxon), transitive, "to bend (cloth) back over itself, wrap up, furl," class VII strong verb (past tense feold, past participle fealden), from Proto-Germanic *falthan, *faldan (source also of Middle Dutch vouden, Dutch vouwen, Old Norse falda, Middle Low German volden, Old
