ten-thousandfold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: tenthousandfold
Etymology: From ten thousand + -fold.
Senses: examples: text: 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; […]
ref: 1920 March 4, A[ndrew] C[laude] D[e la Cherois] Crommelin, “The Einstein Deflection of Light”, in Nature: A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Science, volume CV, number 2627, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited; New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →ISSN, page 24, column 1:
text: 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.
ref: 1942, Carl J[ohn] Engelder, “[Complex-Ion Equilibria] Calculations Involving Complex Ions”, in Calculations of Qualitative Analysis, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman & Hall, Limited, published January 1947, →OCLC, pages 105–106:
text: 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.
ref: 1950 May 8, Merril F[rancis] Distad, “Equilibrium Currents Induced in Zincblende by Electron Bombardment of Negative Electrode”, in The Physical Review, second series, volume 80, number 5, published 1 December 1950, →ISSN, section IV (Equilibrium Bombardment Yield), page 883, column 1:
text: For both reasons taken together—his outstanding merit and his ten-thousandfold poverty—he deserves to have his meals in the prytaneion.
ref: a. 1974, Leo Strauss, “On Plato’s Apology of Socrates and Crito”, in Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy, Chicago, Ill.; London: The University of Chicago Press, published 1983, →ISBN, page 49:
synonyms: myriadfold
glosses: Multiplied by ten thousand.
examples: text: 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?
ref: 1878 January, J[oseph] Norman Lockyer, “Ears and Eyes”, in Macmillan’s Magazine, volume XXXVII, number 219, London: Macmillan and Co. […], →OCLC, page 207, column 2:
text: The ten-thousandfold law of punishment is rigorously enforced against every creature, man included.
ref: 1906 June 23, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “[Reflections on Religion] Four”, in Ray Fabrizio, Edith Karas, Ruth Menmuir, compilers, The Rhetoric of No, New York, N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., published 1970, →ISBN, section “The Impassioned NO”, page 18:
text: In the case of the ten-thousandfold contract of the Mazdayasnian Religion the contracting parties can safely be held to be the Religion on the one hand, and each of the faithful on the other.
ref: 1959, Ilya Gershevitch, “Commentary”, in The Avestan Hymn to Mithra (University of Cambridge Oriental Publications; 4), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →OCLC, section 117¹, page 268:
text: According to the Atthasālinī, the commentary to the Dhammasaṅgaṇī, the Buddha preached the Abhidhamma in the Tāvatiṁsa heaven—the heaven of the Thirty-three—to the devas who had gathered from the ten-thousandfold world-system; […]
ref: 1966, Nyanaponika Thera, “[The Turner of the Wheel] The Abhidhamma”, in Nyanaponika Thera, Hellmuth Hecker, edited by Bhikkhu Bodhi, Great Disciples of the Buddha: Their Lives, Their Works, Their Legacy, Boston, Mass.: Wisdom Publications; Kandy, Central Province: Buddhist Publication Society, published 1997, →ISBN, chapter 1 (Sāriputta: The Marshal of the Dhamma), page 45:
text: The night was full of roaring, like the ten-thousandfold throat of the stadium.
ref: 1988 April, Tanith Lee, “The Fire Ride”, in The White Serpent (A Novel of Vis, 3; DAW Book Collectors No. 740), New York, N.Y.: DAW Books, Inc., →ISBN, book 2 (Alisaar—Part One), page 78:
synonyms: myriadfold
glosses: Having ten thousand parts or members.