seventeenfold

English

Etymology

From seventeen +‎ -fold.

Adjective

seventeenfold (not comparable)

1. By a factor of seventeen.

   a seventeenfold increase

   • 1928, O. E. Kiessling, F. G. Tryon, L. Mann, The Economics of Strip Coal Mining, page 3:

     The Rapid Growth of Strip Mining
     Seventeenfold Increase Since 1914

   • 1950, American Cancer Society, Collected Reprints […]‎^[1], volume 1, page 170:

     The decrease in toxicity was seventeenfold […]

   • 2003, E. A. Koshkina, “Trends in the prevalence of psychoactive substance use in the Russian Federation”, in Bulletin on Narcotics, page 126:

     The number of adolescents seeking treatment for drug addiction for the first time went up from 4.9 per 100,000 in 1991 to 84.5 in 2000, also a seventeenfold increase (figure V).

2. Having seventeen parts.
   • 1894, “Sixth Kânda”, in Julius Eggeling, transl., The Satapatha Brâhmana, volume 3, page 174:

     For this (animal sacrifice) there are seventeen kindling verses; for the year is seventeenfold—there are twelve months and five seasons […]

   • 1971, J. T. Finch, “Electron Microscopy of Proteins”, in Hans Neurath, Robert L. Hill, editors, The Proteins, volume 1, page 432:

     The spectrum in Fig. 7a shows a clear maximum for seventeenfold rotational symmetry, […]

   • 1976, H. W. Bodewitz, “The Agnihotra in Relation with Other Sacrifices”, in The Daily Evening and Morning Offering (Agnihotra) According to the Brāhmaṇas, page 131:

     The vājapeya is seventeenfold; it has seventeen stotras.

Adverb

seventeenfold (not comparable)

1. By a factor of seventeen.
   • 1843, unknown, Local Collections, printed by William Douglas, Resurrection of the Tory Tax on Coal, p. 46:

     [The] exports from Newcastle were [tripled], from Sunderland quadrupled, and from Stockton multipled seventeenfold !

   • 1992, Prudue University, Daily Report: Central Eurasia, page 33:

     Since there was some kind of trifling percentage added to the bank ... prices rose about twentyfold and saving decreased around seventeenfold.

   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 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.