eight-fold
Adjective Satellite
Meaning
having eight units or components
Source: WordNetAlternative names
eight fold
Synonyms
Examples
Women have hunger two-fold, shyness four-fold, daring six-fold, and lust eight-fold as compared to men.
Examples include barite (BaSO 4 ), celestine (SrSO 4 ), and anglesite (PbSO 4 ); anhydrite is not part of the barite group, as the smaller Ca 2+ is only in eight-fold coordination.
It occurs around three, four, five, six, or eight-fold axes, and the corresponding patterns are called threelings, fourlings, fivelings, sixlings, and eightlings.
The number of patients seeking treatment increased eight-fold as compared to the year before.