billionfold

American  

[bil-yuhn-fohld] / ˈbɪl yənˌfoʊld /

adverb

1. Usually, a billionfold. by a billion times; by a factor of a billion.

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adjective

1. a billion times as many or as much.

Example Sentences

The kilobits and microseconds they worry over are multiplied as much as a billionfold in data centers around the world—loud, hot, warehouse-size buildings whose unending racks of processors are cooled by vats of water.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 3, 2018

When we cross Bridge Four, those same nanobots will connect our brains to a neocortical annex in the cloud, and our intelligence will quickly expand a billionfold.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 27, 2017

Technology has electrified the ether: since Edison and Marconi, listeners have increased a billionfold.

From Time Magazine Archive

The fear germ had multiplied within him a billionfold, and in the abundant crop had yielded a mental depression and deep-seated melancholy that had utterly stifled his spirit and dried the marrow of his bones.

From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis