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Ninefold   Listen
adjective
Ninefold  adj.  Nine times repeated.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Ninefold" Quotes from Famous Books



... the case of a descending parachute, if the rapidity of the descent is doubled the resistance of the air is quadrupled; if the rapidity is triple the resistance is increased ninefold; or, to speak in language of science, the resistance of the air is increased by the square of the swiftness of the body in motion. This resistance increases in proportion as the parachute spreads, and thus the uniformity of its fall is established ...
— Wonderful Balloon Ascents - or, the Conquest of the Skies • Fulgence Marion

... So long as The Blood endures, I shall know that your good is mine: ye shall feel that my strength is yours: In the day of Armageddon, at the last great fight of all, That Our House stand together and the pillars do not fall. Draw now the threefold knot firm on the ninefold bands, And the Law that ye make shall be law after the rule of your lands. This for the waxen Heath, and that for the Wattle-bloom, This for the Maple-leaf, and that for the southern Broom. The Law that ye make shall be law and I do not press ...
— Verses 1889-1896 • Rudyard Kipling



Words linked to "Ninefold" :   nine times, nine-fold



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