tenthousandfold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The tenfold quantity is indicated by “deka,” the hundredfold by “hekto,” the thousandfold by “kilo” and the tenthousandfold by “myria.”
ref: 1857, J. C. Oehlschläger, “French Weights and Measures”, in A Dictionary of the English and German Languages, with a Synopsis of English Words Differently Pronounced by Different Orthoëpists, […], volume II, Philadelphia, Pa.: John Weik, […], page 1145, column 2:
text: Who else but that Catalina, whom, to unmask in time, no Cicero was found; that prince of darkness, who stealthily, in the dead of night robbed his nation of freedom and sovereignty; the liar, the forger of the people’s election-votes, the perjured, cold, tenthousandfold man-slaughterer, the profligate, penniless adventurer, now occupying the throne of the kings of France; carbonaro, whilst conspiring in a lower sphere, jesuit, when requiring that brotherhood in order to handcuff France; he the hypocrite, believing in nothing but his own blood-stained star, the man with whose bayonets the dogma of Infallibility has been concocted; the unfathomable intriguer and notorious originator of three wars, in short, the declared heir of the Napoleonic doctrine, that the world, but above all the French nation, are and remain the heirloom of the Bonaparte family and that in order to drain the former, no deed should be deemed too cruel, no treachery too perfidiously-mean.
ref: 1870, Emil du Bois-Reymond, translated by Gustav Solling, The German War. A Discourse Delivered on the Third of August, 1870, in the Aula of the University of Berlin, Berlin: Julius Sittenfeld, […], pages 9–10:
text: Fig. 5 shows that protozoa are the most radio-resistant tissues known and that the eggs of insects are the most radio-sensitive, and that there is a tenthousandfold difference in radio-sensitivity between these two extremes.
ref: 1937, Special Report Series, page 28:
text: In fact, the tenthousandfold variation of the relaxation time (from 10 sec to 0.001 sec) is due to a temperature rise of 22° K, namely from 128° K to 150° K, while in the region between 10⁻⁵ sec; and 10⁻⁹ sec it is caused by a temperature rise of 130° K, i. e. from 170° K to 300° K.
ref: 1938, Technical Physics of the USSR, page 421:
text: There is a tenthousandfold difference between the extremes of sensitivity among different types of living cells when measured by the lethal effect.
ref: 1949, N. Howard-Jones, editor, Applied Biophysics: Survey of Physical Methods Used in Medicine, page 103:
text: May the tenthousandfold bliss of the Holy Lord [and] the prayers of the saints for long life be strong in onehundredthousand^([sic]) and in million eons, (P. 55) may the living creatures be perfect with well-being and causes of well-being!
ref: 1964, Studia orientalia electronica, page 56:
text: Is it not beyond any absurdity to suppose a tenthousandfold infinity or even an infinite time of infinity, while the infinite cannot be comprised even once?
ref: 1972, Samuel Miklos Stern, Albert Hourani, Vivian Brown, editors, Islamic Philosophy and the Classical Tradition: Essays Presented by His Friends and Pupils to Richard Walzer on His Seventieth Birthday, Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, published 1973, →ISBN, page 353:
text: We are sitting on top of a volcano: According to cautious estimates by experts, the potential of nuclear arms stocks alone equals a detonating power of 50,000 megatons of conventional TNT. That means several tons per head of the present world population. That is the tenthousandfold detonating power of all bombs and grenades that exploded during world war II, demanding about 55 million human lives.
ref: 1981, The Marxist Review, page 430:
glosses: Alternative form of ten-thousandfold.