eightfold

adjective

eight·​fold ˈāt-ˌfōld How to pronounce eightfold (audio) -ˈfōld How to pronounce eightfold (audio)
1
: having eight units or members
2
: being eight times as great or as many
an eightfold increase
eightfold
ˈāt-ˈfōld How to pronounce eightfold (audio)
adverb

Examples of eightfold in a Sentence

There has been an eightfold increase in membership in the past year.
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Revenue in the latest fiscal year hit $216 billion, up roughly eightfold since OpenAI launched ChatGPT in late 2022. — Kif Leswing,isabel O'Brien, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2026 Swaminarayan monks, who practice the eightfold version, see it as an important way to help eradicate all traces of desire and remain singularly focused on God. — Bhakti Mamtora, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2026 Gartner projects 40% of enterprise applications will carry a task-specific AI agent by the end of 2026, up from under 5% a year earlier; that's an eightfold jump. — Krupesh Bhat, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2026 In practice, that means Hollow compresses large datasets aggressively enough to fit entirely in a machine's RAM, roughly an eightfold improvement in memory use over traditional methods, by his account. — Jon Stojan, USA Today, 14 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for eightfold

Word History

First Known Use

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of eightfold was before the 12th century

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“Eightfold.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eightfold. Accessed 27 Oct. 2026.

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