millionfold

American  

[mil-yuhn-fohld] / ˈmɪl yənˈfoʊld /

adjective

1. comprising a million parts or members.

2. a million times as great or as much.

   a millionfold increase.

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adverb

1. in a millionfold measure.

Etymology

Origin of millionfold

First recorded in 1860–65; million + -fold

Example Sentences

Fifteen years after that, he calculates, the true transcendence will come: the moment when “computation will be part of ourselves, and we will increase our intelligence a millionfold.”

From New York Times

These efforts yielded a suite of new technologies that reduced the cost of DNA sequencing by more than a millionfold.

From Scientific American

It’s a progression that promises to lower the cost of gene synthesis a millionfold and make it accessible to ever more researchers and useful in ever more experiments and applications.

From New York Times

Of the complex millionfold division of the cells.

From Literature

Because I find it hard to relate to something as small as the structure of the human genome, I like to imagine it scaled up a millionfold.

From Scientific American