FIVE-FOLD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does five-fold mean? 

• FIVE-FOLD (adjective)
  The adjective FIVE-FOLD has 1 sense:

1. having five units or components

  Familiarity information: FIVE-FOLD used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIVE-FOLD (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having five units or components

Synonyms:

five-fold; fivefold; quintuple

Similar:

multiple (having or involving or consisting of more than one part or entity or individual)

 Context examples 

Researchers believe the mechanism may contribute to the two- to five-fold increased risk of heart failure in people with diabetes.

(Excess Fat Disrupts Heart Cell's Energy System, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

One day in early spring he had so far relaxed as to go for a walk with me in the Park, where the first faint shoots of green were breaking out upon the elms, and the sticky spear-heads of the chestnuts were just beginning to burst into their five-fold leaves.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

An indication of the magnitude difference between two values specified as the number of multiples of the first value to the second value (e.g., from 10 to 20 is a 2-fold increase, from 10 to 50 is a five-fold increase).

(Fold Change, NCI Thesaurus)

In addition to the almost 12-fold increased SIDS risk from combined smoking and drinking beyond the first trimester of pregnancy, they determined that the risk of SIDS was increased five-fold in infants whose mothers reported they continued smoking beyond the first trimester, and four-fold in infants whose mothers reported they continued drinking beyond the first trimester.

(Combined prenatal smoking and drinking greatly increases SIDS risk, National Institutes of Health)