milliardfold

English

English numbers ^(edit)

←  1,000,000 (106)		1,000,000,000 (109)	1012  → [a], [b]	1015  → [a], [b]
Cardinal: billion, milliard, thousand million     Ordinal: billionth, milliardth     Multiplier: billionfold, milliardfold     Metric collective prefix: giga-     Metric fractional prefix: nano-     Number of years: giga-annum, gigayear

Alternative forms

• milliard-fold

Etymology

From milliard +‎ -fold.

Adjective

milliardfold (not comparable)

1. A milliard times so.
   • 1919, Leon Trotsky, “Rules and Prospects”, in The Permanent Revolution & Results and Prospects, 1. The Peculiarities of Russian Historical Development, page 20:

     The longer such a state of affairs dragged on, the greater became the contradiction between the needs of economic and cultural development and the policy of the Government, which had developed its mighty ‘milliard-fold’ inertia.

   • 1958, Problems of Cybernetics, Pergamon Press:

     Since all tissues are potentially subject to carcinogenesis the existence of higher organisms would in general be impossible if the conversion of a normal cell into a cancerous one could take place as a result of a single mutation; even if carcinogenesis was caused by the mutation of only one out of ten thousand loci of a chromosome, still, in the organism, there would be a million or milliardfold opportunity for a cancerous tumour to arise.

   • 1977, Erich von Däniken, According to the Evidence: My Proof of Man's Extraterrestrial Origins:

     This milliard-fold bilocation required a god/spirit who had to be omnipresent and omniscient. Only then can God be informed about everything that creeps and flies; only then can a unified judgment of the rigtheous and unrighteous be made;

Adverb

milliardfold (not comparable)

1. By a factor of a milliard.
   • 1890, Henry Sebastian Bowden, Natural Religion, Friedrich Pustet, translation of Apologie Des Christenthums by Hettinger, Franz:

     “In very few years,” says Bertholt, “insects, at their rapid rate of increase, would multiply a milliardfold, and strata would be formed of the bodies of worms and grubs.”

   • 1909, Denton Jaques Snider, Cosmos and Diacosmos: The Processes of Nature Psychologically Treated, page 149:

     Number is now seen working with itself and evolving itself, combining and dividing itself milliardfold.

   • 1934, Edwin Walter Kemmerer, “Chapter VI: Germany’s Inflation”, in Kemmerer on Money, George Routledge & Sons, Security Prices:

     Comparing December, 1923, with the year 1913, we find that the prices of stocks on the average increased 269 milliardfold, while the wages of higher Government officials, a class of people for whom the wage rise was exceptionally, increased 509 milliardfold.

   • 1961, Johannes Witt-Hansen, Historical Materialism: The Method, the Theories; Exposition and Critique, volume 1:

     Commenting on the question of dialectic, Lenin observes in accordance with Engels: Marx analyzes in Capital first of all the simplest, the most common, the most fundamental, the most manifold, the most habitual, milliardfold observable relation of bourgeois (commodity-) society: the exchange of commodities.

   • 1967, N. I. Kirillov, Problems in Photographic Research and Technology, Focal Press:

     In the process of development there is a selective reduction of the silver-halide microcrystals of the photographic layer affected by the action of light, while at the same time the latent photographic image is intensified million and milliard-fold, as a result of which it becomes visible.

   • 1988, L. León, The World-solution for World-problems: The Problem, Its Cause, Its Solution, →ISBN:

     A more appropriate comparison of a planetary population would be that of a huge space-ship, a milliardfold in complexity compared with anything we know of, with no captain or crew, with no other owners than this population itself, that is set aboard all of a sudden.

   • 1998, Jinning Wu, Yuhua Li, translated by Zhichao Wang, The Truth of the Universe, →ISBN:

     During burst the supernovas in forming stage throw more mass than the novas do and give a milliard-fold as much as luminosity as the Sun.

   • 2010 November 30, Ryzhard Pohorecki, John Bridgwater, M. Molzahn, Rafiqul Gani, Crispulo Gallegos, Chemical Engineering and Chemical Process Technology: Fundamentals of Chemical Engineering, volume 1, United Kingdom: EOLSS Publishers, →ISBN, Orders of Magnitude of Heat Rates and Heat Fluxes, page 134:

     Multiplying Ė₀ with this spherical surface gives the heat rate emitted by the sun: […] that turns out to be: […] which is more than 2 milliard-fold the rate irradiated upon Earth.