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eightfold

adverb

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L189594 on Wikidata ↗

adjective

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L336372 on Wikidata ↗

Wiktionary

adj

Etymology: 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.

adv

Etymology: From Middle English [Term?], from Old English eahtafeald. Equivalent to eight + -fold.

  1. By a factor of eight.