thousandfold

adj

1. (not-comparable)Multiplied by one thousand (1000), repeated a thousand times.

   “The changes to the algorithm resulted in a thousandfold increase in efficiency, earning the engineer a small brass plaque.”

   “[T]he fresh brave school-life, so full of games, adventures, and good fellowship, so ready at forgetting, so capacious at enjoying, so bright at forecasting, outweighed a thousandfold their troubles with the master of their form, and the occasional ill-usage of the big boys in the house.”

2. (not-comparable)Having one thousand parts or members.

   “Looking into his eyes, you seemed to see there the yet lingering images of those thousand-fold perils he had calmly confronted through life.”

adv

1. (not-comparable)By a factor of a thousand.