milliardfold
advEtymology From milliard + -fold.
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By a factor of a milliard.
- “In very few years,” says Bertholt, “insects, at their rapid rate of increase, would multiply a milliardfold, and strata would be formed of the bodies of worms and grubs.”1890, Henry Sebastian Bowden, Natural Religion, Friedrich Pustet, translation of Apologie Des Christenthums by Hettinger, Franz:
- Number is now seen working with itself and evolving itself, combining and dividing itself milliardfold.1909, Denton Jaques Snider, Cosmos and Diacosmos: The Processes of Nature Psychologically Treated, page 149:
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- Comparing December, 1923, with the year 1913, we find that the prices of stocks on the average increased 269 milliardfold, while the wages of higher Government officials, a class of people for whom the wage rise was exceptionally, increased 509 milliardfold.1934, Edwin Walter Kemmerer, “Chapter VI: Germany’s Inflation”, in Kemmerer on Money, George Routledge & Sons, Security Prices:
- Commenting on the question of dialectic, Lenin observes in accordance with Engels: Marx analyzes in Capital first of all the simplest, the most common, the most fundamental, the most manifold, the most habitual, milliardfold observable relation of bourgeois (commodity-) society: the exchange of commodities.1961, Johannes Witt-Hansen, Historical Materialism: The Method, the Theories; Exposition and Critique, volume 1:
- In the process of development there is a selective reduction of the silver-halide microcrystals of the photographic layer affected by the action of light, while at the same time the latent photographic image is intensified million and milliard-fold, as a result of which it becomes visible.1967, N. I. Kirillov, Problems in Photographic Research and Technology, Focal Press:
- A more appropriate comparison of a planetary population would be that of a huge space-ship, a milliardfold in complexity compared with anything we know of, with no captain or crew, with no other owners than this population itself, that is set aboard all of a sudden.1988, L. León, The World-solution for World-problems: The Problem, Its Cause, Its Solution, →ISBN: