Definitions

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  • adjective A billion times so;
  • adverb In a billionfold way; by a billion degrees; on a scale of a billion; as, to multiply something a billionfold, to magnify something a billionfold, something which is a billionfold heavier than something else.

Etymologies

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billion +‎ -fold

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Examples

  • Here, more than anywhere, the world has been unbalanced by superlatives, by billionfold multiplication, by earth-changing jumps.

    When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

  • Here, more than anywhere, the world has been unbalanced by superlatives, by billionfold multiplication, by earth-changing jumps.

    When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

  • Ray Kurzweil: The price of infobits/dollar has dropped a billionfold since I was a student.

    Patrick Takahashi: The Singularity Summit 2010 2010

  • Here, more than anywhere, the world has been unbalanced by superlatives, by billionfold multiplication, by earth-changing jumps.

    When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

  • Ray Kurzweil: The price of infobits/dollar has dropped a billionfold since I was a student.

    Patrick Takahashi: The Singularity Summit 2010 2010

  • GDC audience to look for the price-to-performance ratio of computers to improve a billionfold in the next 25 years.

    Game Developer Conference Alice 2008

  • Grains poured from above, a billionfold, to cover what he cleared.

    Explorations ANDERSON, Poul 1981

  • A moment ago you were talking in terms of hundreds of people; suddenly the stakes have jumped more than a billionfold.

    Trek to Madworld Goldin, Stephen 1978

  • When this occurred, an instinctive reaction in its billionfold colloidal essence caused the amorphous gelatinous thing to lift up and become transparent to the point of invisibility.

    Plasma Monster Mahr, Kurt 1976

  • By the time we get to the 2040s, we'll be able to multiply human intelligence a billionfold.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2011

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