threefold

To make threefold; to triple.

Adjective

  1. Three times as great.
    • "We recognise that electrifying more of the railway is likely to be necessary to deliver decarbonisation," it stated. There's clearly a growing momentum in that direction, but some significant hurdles have still to be...
  2. Triple.

Origin

From Middle English threfold, from Old English þrīfeald. Equivalent to three + -fold.

Forms

three-fold 3-fold

Synonyms

thrissome ternary trine triple triplicate threefold

Antonyms

trisect

Hypernyms

manifold

Derived

thick and threefold threefold law threefoldly threefoldness

Adverb

  1. By a factor of three.

Forms

three-fold 3-fold

Synonyms

thrice trebly

Noun

  1. An algebraic variety of dimension 3.
    • In this way, we find some new pairs (h#123;1,1#125;,#92;#59;h#123;2,1#125;) of Hodge numbers of Calabi-Yau threefolds. - 2015, Xun Yu, “McKay correspondence and new Calabi-Yau threefolds”, in (Please provide the book...

Forms

threefolds three-fold 3-fold

Verb

  1. To make threefold; to triple.

Forms

threefolds threefolding threefolded three-fold 3-fold