'Fourfold' definitions:
Definition of 'fourfold'
(from WordNet)
adverb
By a factor of four; "the price of gasoline has increased fourfold over the past two years" [syn: fourfold, four times]
adjective
Four times as great or many; "a fourfold increase in the dosage" [syn: quadruple, fourfold, four-fold]
adjective
Having four units or components; "quadruple rhythm has four beats per measure"; "quadruplex wire" [syn: quadruple, quadruplicate, quadruplex, fourfold, four-fold]
Definition of 'Fourfold'
From: GCIDE
- Fourfold \Four"fold`\, n. Four times as many or as much. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Fourfold'
From: GCIDE
- Fourfold \Four"fold`\, v. t. To make four times as much or as many, as an assessment; to quadruple. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Fourfold'
From: GCIDE
- Fourfold \Four"fold`\, a. & adv. [AS. fe['o]werfeold.] Four times; quadruple; as, a fourfold division. [1913 Webster]
- He shall restore the lamb fourfold. --2 Sam. xii. 6. [1913 Webster]