a hundred times

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   by a factor of one hundred

   “they money increased a hundredfold”

   Synonymshundredfold

Questions about a hundred times

What does a hundred times mean?

a hundred times means "by a factor of one hundred".

What is another word for a hundred times?

Close synonyms include hundredfold. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is a hundred times a common word?

a hundred times is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.