THOUSAND TIMES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thousand times mean? 

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

1. by three orders of magnitude

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• THOUSAND TIMES (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

By three orders of magnitude

Synonyms:

thousand-fold; thousand times

Context example:

this poison is a thousand-fold more toxic

 Context examples 

One part per billion is a thousand times smaller than one part per million.

(Low-level arsenic exposure before birth associated with early puberty and obesity in female mice, NIH)

Now, since I know it is all true, a hundred thousand times more do I know that he must pass through the bitter waters to reach the sweet.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Though the declaration of my love urged and trembled on my tongue a thousand times, I knew that it was no time for such a declaration.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

And then this Alec Fairbairn chipped in, and things became a thousand times blacker.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To my fancy, a thousand times prettier than Barton Park, where they are forced to send three miles for their meat, and have not a neighbour nearer than your mother.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

It has about the same mass as our Sun, but is 350 times larger and several thousand times as bright.

(Giant Bubbles on Red Giant Star’s Surface, ESO)

“And I'll say so again, my love,” I returned, “a thousand times!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A thousand times this occurred, and each time the terror it inspired was as vivid and great as ever.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

But I had ten thousand times rather have been with you; now had not I, Mrs. Allen?

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Ever the heap grew, and though each bill was duplicated a thousand times, he found only one for two dollars and a half, which was what he owed Maria.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)