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Webster 1913 Edition


Fourfold

Four′foldˊ

,
Adj.
&
adv.
[AS.
feówerfeold
.]
Four times; quadruple;
as, a
fourfold
division
.
He shall restore the lamb
fourfold
.
2 Sam. xii. 6.

Four′foldˊ

,
Noun.
Four times as many or as much.

Four′foldˊ

,
Verb.
T.
To make four times as much or as many, as an assessment; to quadruple.

Webster 1828 Edition


Fourfold

FOURFOLD

,
Adj.
Four double; quadruple; four times told; as a fourfold division.
He shall restore the lamb fourfold. 2Sam. 12.

FOURFOLD

,
Noun.
Four times as much.

Definition 2024


fourfold

fourfold

English

Adjective

fourfold (not comparable)

  1. four times as great
  2. quadruple

Translations

Adverb

fourfold (not comparable)

  1. by a factor of four
    • Bible, 2. Sam. xii. 6
      He shall restore the lamb fourfold.

Translations

Verb

fourfold (third-person singular simple present fourfolds, present participle fourfolding, simple past and past participle fourfolded)

  1. to increase to four times as much; to multiply by four

Translations

Noun

fourfold (plural fourfolds)

  1. (mathematics) An algebraic variety of degree 4.
    • 2015, Brent Pym, “Elliptic singularities on log symplectic manifolds and Feigin--Odesskii Poisson brackets”, in arXiv:
      Our main application is to the classification of Poisson brackets on Fano fourfolds.