NINE TIMES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nine times mean? 

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

1. by a factor of nine

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NINE TIMES (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

By a factor of nine

Synonyms:

nine times; ninefold

Context example:

my investment has increased ninefold

 Context examples 

We have dined nine times at Rosings, besides drinking tea there twice!

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Jo laughed, Meg scolded, Beth implored, and Amy wailed because she couldn't remember how much nine times twelve was.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Those who consistently averaged less than one cigarette per day over their lifetime had nine times the risk of dying from lung cancer than never smokers.

(No safe level of smoking: Even low-intensity smokers are at increased risk of earlier death, National Institutes of Health)

We were right in principle, and ninety-nine times out of a hundred we should have proved, by the logic of events, the accuracy of our judgment.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Alvimopan is approximately three to nine times more potent than naloxone.

(Alvimopan, NCI Thesaurus)

The Red Planet has been observed shrouded by planet-encircling dust nine times since 1924, with the five most recent planetary storms detected in 1977, 1982, 1994, 2001 and 2007.

(Study Predicts Next Global Dust Storm on Mars, NASA)

The last few years were good in terms of population growth in Italy, with PGR surging to 0.99% in both 2003 and 2004, falling back to 0.49% in 2005 and rising again in 2006-2007, but the turning point was 2002-2003, when official figures increased nine times, surging from 0.06% at 01.01.2002 to 0.57% at 01.01.2003.

(Is the Global Crisis Triggering Basic Instincts?, BOGDAN FLORIN PAUL)

They found that animals treated for worms were nine times more likely to survive TB infections than untreated animals; with the worms gone, their immune systems were able to mount a stronger defense against TB.

(Treatment for parasitic worms helps animals survive infectious diseases--and spread them, NSF)

She would craunch the wing of a lark, bones and all, between her teeth, although it were nine times as large as that of a full-grown turkey; and put a bit of bread into her mouth as big as two twelve-penny loaves.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)