adjective
definition
Having six component parts.
example
The method is sixfold, and I will tell you what the six steps you must take are.
adverb
definition
Times six, multiplied by six.
example
I will return your investment sixfold. That's right, you'll have 600% of what you started with.
Examples of sixfold in a Sentence
This might be double, treble, fourfold, fivefold, sixfold, tenfold, twelvefold, even thirtyfold,, according to the enormity of the offence.
During her reign the people of Great Britain doubled their number; but the accumulated wealth of the country increased at least threefold, and its trade sixfold.
And the number of builders will go up from 1,100 to 6,500 - a sixfold increase.
Even so, friend, a monk beholds no trace of the self nor of what pertains to the self in the sixfold sense-sphere.
In India, adoption of the new seeds has been accompanied by a sixfold rise in fertilizer use per acre.
But the growth of independent churches is most remarkable, having been sixfold since 1890.
Thus in the century between 1801 and 1901 it increased sixfold, while during the same period London only increased fivefold.
In a direct competitive test the presence of 3.25% of nickel increased nearly sixfold the number of rotations which a steel shaft would endure before breaking.