eightfold
advEtymology From Middle English [Term?], from Old English eahtafeald. Equivalent to eight + -fold.
1
By a factor of eight.
eightfold
adjEtymology From Middle English [Term?], from Old English eahtafeald. Equivalent to eight + -fold.
1
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.
- Derived terms
- eightfold path, noble eightfold path, eightfoldness, eightfold way