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Cardinal: four Ordinal: fourth Latinate ordinal: quartary, quaternary Reverse order ordinal: fourth to last, fourth from last, last but three Latinate reverse order ordinal: preantepenultimate Adverbial: four times Multiplier: fourfold Latinate multiplier: quadruple Distributive: quadruply Group collective: foursome Multipart collective: quadruplet Greek or Latinate collective: tetrad Greek collective prefix: tetra-, tessera- Latinate collective prefix: quadri- Fractional: quarter, fourth Latinate fractional prefix: quadrant- Elemental: quadruplet Greek prefix: tetarto- Number of musicians: quartet Number of years: quadrennium, olympiad |
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Etymology[edit]
From Middle English fourfold, fourefold, from Old English fēowerfeald. Equivalent to four + -fold. Cognate with Dutch viervoud, Gothic 𐍆𐌹𐌳𐌿𐍂𐍆𐌰𐌻𐌸𐍃 (fidurfalþs).
Adjective[edit]
fourfold (not comparable)
- Four times as great; quadruple.
- Comprised of four individual members.
- 1895, [Charles Hardy], The Aural System […][1], page 5:
- Most pupils have a fourfold object in studying a language; they wish to be able to read and write, to speak and to understand it.
Synonyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
four times as great
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comprised of four individual members
Adverb[edit]
fourfold (not comparable)
- By a factor of four.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Samuel 12:6:
- And he shall restore the Lambe fourefold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pittie.
Synonyms[edit]
- quadruply; see also Thesaurus:four times
Translations[edit]
by a factor of four
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Verb[edit]
fourfold (third-person singular simple present fourfolds, present participle fourfolding, simple past and past participle fourfolded)
Synonyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
increase to four times as much — see also quadruple
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Noun[edit]
fourfold (plural fourfolds)
- (mathematics) An algebraic variety of degree 4.
- 2015, Brent Pym, “Elliptic singularities on log symplectic manifolds and Feigin--Odesskii Poisson brackets”, in arXiv[2]:
- Our main application is to the classification of Poisson brackets on Fano fourfolds.
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