TWO TIMES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does two times mean? 

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

1. by a factor of two

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TWO TIMES (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

By a factor of two

Synonyms:

two times; twofold

Context example:

the price increased twofold last year

 Context examples 

A group of more than 600 European adolescents were studied at two times.

(Study in Teens Shows Brain Responses to Rewards Linked to Pain Sensitivity, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have led to the first temperature map of a super-Earth planet — a rocky planet nearly two times as big as ours.

(Spitzer Maps Climate Patterns on a Super-Earth, NASA)

The planet’s size and composition are unknown, but a rocky world with this mass would range from about one to two times Earth’s size.

(Confirmation of Toasty TESS Planet Leads to Surprising Find of Promising World, NASA)

Among planets that orbit close to their stars, there's a curious dearth of worlds between about 1.5 and two times Earth's size.

(Citizen Scientists Find New World with NASA Telescope, NASA)

Rare aspects like this are noticeable because they only happen about two times in a lifetime.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Because equatorial regions receive approximately two times more UVR than more temperate regions, darker pigmentation in people from these regions is thought to reduce skin damage and cancer.

(New regions of the human genome linked to skin color variation in some African populations, National Institutes of Health)

Also is there bad water at Cambell Fort, where the Yukon goes slim like a maiden, and the water is fast, and the currents rush this way and that and come together, and there are whirls and sucks, and always are the currents changing and the face of the water changing, so at any two times it is never the same.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Either of two points on the celestial sphere where the celestial equator intersects the ecliptic; either of the two times each year when the sun crosses the equator, and day and night are of equal length (spring equinox, fall equinox).

(Equinox, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)