threefold
English
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Cardinal: three Ordinal: third Latinate ordinal: tertiary Reverse order ordinal: third to last, third from last, last but two Latinate reverse order ordinal: antepenultimate Adverbial: three times, thrice Multiplier: threefold Latinate multiplier: triple Distributive: triply Germanic collective: trio, threesome Collective of n parts: triplet Greek or Latinate collective: triad Greek collective prefix: tri- Latinate collective prefix: tri- Fractional: third Latinate fractional prefix: trient- Elemental: triplet Greek prefix: trito- Number of musicians: trio, triplet Number of years: triennium |
Alternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English threfold, from Old English þrīfeald. Equivalent to three + -fold.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editthreefold (not comparable)
- Three times as great.
- 2020 May 20, Andrew Haines talks to Stefanie Foster, “Repurpose rail for the 2020s”, in Rail, page 33:
- "We recognise that electrifying more of the railway is likely to be necessary to deliver decarbonisation," it stated.
There's clearly a growing momentum in that direction, but some significant hurdles have still to be overcome - not least the legacy of the three-fold increase in cost on the Great Western Electrification Programme, which has become the poster project for expensive wiring.
- Triple. (clarification of this definition is needed)
Synonyms
edit- (three times as great): thrissome; see also Thesaurus:threefold
- (triple): ternary, trine; see also Thesaurus:triple
Derived terms
editTranslations
editthree times as great
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triple — see also triple
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Adverb
editthreefold (not comparable)
- By a factor of three.
Synonyms
edit- thrice, trebly; see also Thesaurus:thrice
Translations
editby a factor of three
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Noun
editthreefold (plural threefolds)
- (mathematics) An algebraic variety of dimension 3.
- 2015, Xun Yu, “McKay correspondence and new Calabi-Yau threefolds”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[1]:
- In this way, we find some new pairs of Hodge numbers of Calabi-Yau threefolds.
Verb
editthreefold (third-person singular simple present threefolds, present participle threefolding, simple past and past participle threefolded)
- (transitive) To make threefold; to triple.
Translations
editto make threefold; to triple — see triple
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