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THOUSAND TIMES
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
By three orders of magnitude
Example:
this poison is a thousand-fold more toxic
Synonyms:
thousand-fold; thousand times
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Context examples:
The electrons are over a thousand times lighter than the ions.
(Solar Eruptions Could Electrify Martian Moons, NASA)
Antithrombin III inhibits the activity of thrombin and also the step leading to the activation of factor X. Antithrombin III is a hundred to a thousand times more effective when bound by heparin.
(Extrinsic Prothrombin Activation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
This suspense is a thousand times worse than the most horrible event; tell me what new scene of death has been acted, and whose murder I am now to lament?
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Four hundred years after Newton, University of Cambridge researchers have overcome this challenge to produce a system up to a thousand times smaller than those previously reported.
(Nanowires replace Newton’s famous glass prism, University of Cambridge)
The system has also set a new record for the most extreme range of orbits yet observed: the outermost planet is more than a thousand times further from the star than the innermost one, which raises interesting questions about how such a system might have formed.
(Giant planets around young star raise questions about how planets form, University of Cambridge)
Sitting by the fire in the housekeeper's room, I approached that island in my fancy from every possible direction; I explored every acre of its surface; I climbed a thousand times to that tall hill they call the Spy-glass, and from the top enjoyed the most wonderful and changing prospects.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Of course the truck was a thousand times bigger than any of the mice who were to draw it; but when all the mice had been harnessed, they were able to pull it quite easily.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
Better a thousand times that my son should be brought up in a humble station and in ignorance of his unfortunate father, than that he should learn to share the doubts and suspicions of his equals.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She could not at first tell why she felt sad, but she became conscious at last of great longing to go home; then she knew she was homesick, although she was a thousand times better off with Mother Holle than with her mother and sister.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
You only need a very thin film of this perovskite material – around one thousand times thinner than a human hair – to achieve similar efficiencies to the silicon wafers currently used, opening up the possibility of incorporating them into windows or flexible, ultra-lightweight smartphone screens.
(‘Messy’ production of perovskite material increases solar cell efficiency, University of Cambridge)
