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eightfold

adj

Etymology

From Middle English [Term?], from Old English eahtafeald. Equivalent to eight + -fold.

  1. inherited from eahtafeald

Definitions

  1. Eight times as much

    Eight times as much; multiplied by eight.

  2. Containing eight parts.

    • 2003, Richard Morris, The Last Sorcerers, page 213, The scheme, which Gell-Mann called the eightfold way, grouped mesons and baryons into families.

  3. By a factor of eight.

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