"ten-thousandfold" meaning in All languages combined

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          "text": "Comparing the C_(Ag⁺) in this case with that of Example 1, where no excess of the NH₃ was present, we find that the value has decreased from 5.5 × 10⁻⁴ to 6.8 × 10⁻⁸, a ten-thousandfold decrease.",
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          "text": "It is to be noted that the results agree with the simple relation given by Eq. (1) for as much as a ten-thousandfold change in δ_F.",
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          "text": "How is it, then, that with the first class of receiver, the eye, we are enabled, unless indeed we be colour-blind, to see all the beautiful and glorious varieties of nature in its ten-thousandfold hues; while the other receiver, the photographic plate, gives us but black and white?",
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          "ref": "1906 June 23, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “[Reflections on Religion] Four”, in Ray Fabrizio, Edith Karas, Ruth Menmuir, compilers, The Rhetoric of No, New York, N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., published 1970, →ISBN, section “The Impassioned NO”, page 18:",
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          "text": "According to the Atthasālinī, the commentary to the Dhammasaṅgaṇī, the Buddha preached the Abhidhamma in the Tāvatiṁsa heaven—the heaven of the Thirty-three—to the devas who had gathered from the ten-thousandfold world-system; […]",
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