eightfold

adj 2adv 1

Collocations

VERB + EIGHTFOLD

called, exports

EIGHTFOLD + NOUN

mesons, way

ADV.

almost

Definitions

adj

Eight times as much; multiplied by eight.

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.

adv

By a factor of eight.

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Synonyms

adjective — having eight units or components

octuple
eight-fold

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

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Japan wants to boost its rice exports almost eightfold by 2030, a ministry official said Thursday, despite currently suffering a domestic shortage of the grain.

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