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Multiple vs Googolfold - What's the difference?

multiple | googolfold |

As adjectives the difference between multiple and googolfold

is that multiple is multiple while googolfold is by a multiple of one googol; by a googol times as much or as many.

As an adverb googolfold is

by a factor of one googol.

multiple

English

(wikipedia multiple)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having more than one element, part, component, or function, particularly many.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Catherine Clabby
    • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= Focus on Everything , passage=Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.

    Synonyms

    * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)

    Antonyms

    * (many) (l) (rare)

    Derived terms

    * Law of multiple proportion (Law of Dalton) * multiple algebra * multiple conjugation * multiple exposure * multiple fruits * multiple orgasm * multiple star

    Related terms

    * multi- * multiplier * multiplicity * multiply

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (mathematics) A number that may be divided by another number with no remainder.
  • * 14, 21 and 70 are multiples of 7
  • (finance) Price-earnings ratio.
  • One of a set of the same thing; a duplicate.
  • A single individual who has multiple personalities.
  • * 2010 , Ann M. Garvey, Ann's Multiple World of Personality: Regular No Cream, No Sugar
    • I had seen its first show when it was a freebie, but I thought it made multiples in general look silly – no one changes clothes THAT much!
  • * 2000 , Henk Driessen, ?Ton Otto, Perplexities of identification (page 115)
    • Non-abused multiples have no need of doctors, and they have carved out a foothold of their own from where they speak confidently about their utopian vision of a multiple world.

    Derived terms

    * common multiple * least common multiple

    googolfold

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • By a multiple of one googol; by a googol times as much or as many.

    • Adverb

    (-)
  • By a factor of one googol.
  • * {{cite newsgroup
    • , title = Re: Animefantastique Ends Publication , author = chance wolf , date = November 6, 1999 , newsgroup = rec.arts.animation , id = , url = https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.animation/xLlB2GxY9bQ/ZWgJ2ICu2AAJ , accessdate = 2014-12-10 }}
    There are people out there cornerning the market on these things hoping ol' Ty will retire them and somehow disappear from the face of the earth - thereby increasing their value a googolfold .
  • * {{cite newsgroup
    • , title = Re: Interesting non-FTL interstellar settings? , author = Robert Shaw , date = January 19, 2004 , newsgroup = rec.arts.sf.written , id = , url = https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.sf.written/bJQj6ggbbOE/lSNXuY4rg6oJ , accessdate = 2014-12-10 }}
    To get the intensity of the light travelling the loop we must combine the contributions from photons circling it once, twice, thrice, fourfold, ... , a googolfold ...
  • * 2009 , Joel Marks, Ought Implies Kant , page 39:
    • The situation is about to get a googol-
    fold     worse.

    Related terms

    * hundredfold * thousandfold * millionfold * billionfold * trillionfold * quadrillionfold * quintillionfold * sextillionfold * septillionfold * octillionfold * googolplexfold