SIX TIMES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does six times mean? 

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

1. by a factor of six

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SIX TIMES (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

By a factor of six

Synonyms:

six times; sixfold

Context example:

the population of this town increased sixfold when gold was found in the surrounding hills

 Context examples 

Participants taking 4,000 international units — more than six times the daily 600 IUs the Institute of Medicine currently recommends for most adults and children — received the most benefit.

(High Doses of Vitamin D Rapidly Reduce Arterial Stiffness, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Kepler-13Ab's strong surface gravity — six times greater than Jupiter's — pulls the titanium oxide snow out of the upper atmosphere and traps it in the lower atmosphere.

(Hubble Observes Exoplanet that Snows Sunscreen, NASA)

The players with two or more unintentional impacts were six times more likely to have symptoms than those with no unintentional impacts.

(Soccer Players: More Headers, More Concussions, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The ratio of carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide when the lava lake was in its most energetic state was six times higher than during the most stable phase.

(Size matters: if you are a bubble of volcanic gas, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In 140 years of telescope observations, great storms have erupted on Saturn six times.

(Study Explains Saturn's Epic Tantrums, NASA)

The fastest-changing glacier of the three (Smith Glacier) is melting nearly six times as fast as a previous estimate for this region, losing up to 230 feet in ice thickness each year.

(Studies Offer New Glimpse of Melting Under Antarctic Glaciers, NASA)

He fired rapidly, six times, and six of the pack lay dead or dying—another manifestation of power that sank deep into White Fang's consciousness.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Six per cent—six times seven—four hundred an' twenty.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The gene-editing technology known as CRISPR/Cas9 is six times more effective than other techniques at homing in on target genes and inserting or deleting specific sequences.

(A new role for zebrafish: larger scale gene function studies, NIH)

Even the least obese, with a body mass index (BMI) of 30 to 35, had twice the risk of high blood pressure, nearly twice the risk of heart failure and nearly six times the risk of sleep apnoea of those with a healthy weight.

(Middle Age Severely Obese People More Likely to Die Early, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)