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A MILLION TIMES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does a million times mean? 

A MILLION TIMES (adverb)
  The adverb A MILLION TIMES has 1 sense:

1. by a factor of a millionplay

  Familiarity information: A MILLION TIMES used as an adverb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


A MILLION TIMES (adverb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

By a factor of a million

Synonyms:

a million times; millionfold

Context example:

it increased a millionfold


 Context examples 


Certainly not a great match for Louisa Musgrove, but a million times better than marrying among the Hayters.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Most of the neutrinos studied by the research team were more than a million times more energetic than the those produced by sources like the sun or nuclear power plants.

(Antarctic detector offers first look at how Earth stops high-energy neutrinos in their tracks, National Science Foundation)

A new study by researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography suggests there could be a million times more pieces of plastic in the ocean than previously estimated.

(Microplastics million times more abundant in the ocean than previously thought, National Science Foundation)

These new materials will be designed and refined at the picometer scale, which is a thousand times smaller than a nanometer and a million times smaller than a micrometer (which itself is smaller than the width of a human hair).

(Picoscience and a plethora of new materials, National Science Foundation)

One of the largest gaps lies in a certain type of black hole: intermediate-mass black holes that fall between supermassive (at least a million times greater than our sun) and stellar (smaller, though still 5 to 50 times greater than the mass of our sun) black holes.

(Observing 'black hole symphony' using gravitational wave astronomy, National Science Foundation)

Brown dwarfs are generally cool, dim objects, but their auroras are about a million times more powerful than auroras on Earth, and if we could somehow see them, they'd be about a million times brighter, Hallinan said.

(Powerful Auroras Found at Brown Dwarf, NASA)



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