threefold
IPA: θrˈifoʊɫd
noun
- (mathematics) An algebraic variety of dimension 3.
verb
- (transitive) To make threefold; to triple.
adjective
- Three times as great.
- Triple.
adverb
- By a factor of three.
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Examples of "threefold" in Sentences
- Then He has shown us what we shall see, that is, the threefold coming.
- The burs were ripe, and had just begun to divide, not "threefold," but fourfold, "to show the fruit within."
- The burrs were ripe, and had just begun to divide, not "threefold," but fourfold, "to show the fruit within."
- The tripod stand should be of the so-called threefold variety, with sliding legs which can be adapted to broken ground.
- EDCCC chair Euodias Goza said he is hopeful that the job creation will "trickle down" throughout the county for a "threefold" benefit for Scroll and the county's retail and tourism industry.
- In China, eBay EachNet added 2.3 million new users, more than any market outside the United States, to reach a total of 20.3 million users. eBay India surpassed the 2 million user mark and listings jumped threefold from the year-ago quarter.
- "The _willow_ accommodates the bees in a kind of threefold succession; from the flowers they obtain both honey and farina; -- from the bark propolis; -- and the leaves frequently afford them honey-dew at a time when other resources are beginning to fail."
- This preparation of the subject, which raises him up to the revealed object and tunes him to it, is for the individual person the disposition we could call the threefold unity of faith, hope, and love, a disposition that must already be present at least in an inchoative way in the very first genuine encounter.
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