Etymology
Origin of millionfold
Example Sentences
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These efforts yielded a suite of new technologies that reduced the cost of DNA sequencing by more than a millionfold.
From Scientific American • Mar. 31, 2022
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 • Nov. 24, 2021
If we can only replicate the effect a millionfold across Europe, well … I'd have a cup of tea on that.
From The Guardian • Mar. 1, 2013
Result: the second beam was compressed more than 100 millionfold in length and "stored" in the form of altered energy states and spin patterns in the atoms.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of the complex millionfold division of the cells.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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