FOUR TIMES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does four times mean? 

• FOUR TIMES (adverb)
  The adverb FOUR TIMES has 1 sense:

1. by a factor of four

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOUR TIMES (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

By a factor of four

Synonyms:

four times; fourfold

Context example:

the price of gasoline has increased fourfold over the past two years

 Context examples 

She danced four dances with him at Meryton; she saw him one morning at his own house, and has since dined with him in company four times.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Three times, four times, and half a dozen times, his sharp little teeth scored on the newcomer, until White Fang, yelping shamelessly, fled to the protection of his mother.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The highest exposure level in the studies was four times higher than the maximum power level permitted.

(High exposure to radio frequency radiation associated with cancer, National Institutes of Health)

Four times he had covered the distance between Salt Water and Dawson, and the knowledge that, jaded and tired, he was facing the same trail once more, made him bitter.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Surprisingly, using the same approach to remove ROS in normal heart cells led to mitochondria that were four times as large as normal, suggesting that ROS levels are inversely proportional to mitochondria size.

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

He came four times a day for a week.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

For the Mariana Trench region alone, four times more water subducts than previously calculated.

(Seismic study reveals huge amount of water dragged into Earth’s interior, National Science Foundation)

The paper's projections of species loss are similar for plants and animals, but extinctions are projected to be two to four times more common in the tropics than in temperate regions.

(One-third of plant and animal species could be gone in 50 years, National Science Foundation)

The pool is over four times larger than a shallower, long-known magma chamber.

(Yellowstone magma discovery, NSF)

These new observations reveal the glow coming from cold dust in a region between one to four times as far from Proxima Centauri as the Earth is from the Sun.

(ALMA Discovers Cold Dust Around Nearest Star, ESO)