onefold

American  

[wuhn-fohld] / ˈwʌnˌfoʊld /

adjective

1. having a single part; whole; complete.

   He speaks of the unity of self and body as a onefold dimension.

2. Mathematics, Biochemistry.  having an increase in amount that is equal to the original amount, which is commonly but less technically considered twofold.

   It reveals a range of values extending from a onefold difference for DNA up to a 435-fold difference for lipids.

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Etymology

Origin of onefold

First recorded in 1425–75; late Middle English; one, -fold

Example Sentences

Such concentrated medium was diluted back to onefold with complete DMEM.

From Nature

Secondly, if two of the intersections coincide, say if the line infinity meets the curve in a onefold point and a twofold point, both of them real, then there is always one asymptote: the line infinity may at the twofold point touch the curve, and we have the parabolic hyperbolas; or the twofold point may be a singular point,—viz., a crunode giving the hyperbolisms of the hyperbola; an acnode, giving the hyperbolisms of the ellipse; or a cusp, giving the hyperbolisms of the parabola.

From Project Gutenberg

That I should have had such a chance of doing good, onefold to others and a thousandfold to self, at this turn of life, when I was full of little me, is another of the many most clear indications of a kind hand over me.

From Project Gutenberg