billionfold
Americanadverb
adjective
Example Sentences
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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
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