times

timespreposition

1. multiplied bymultiplied by

   mathematics

   • Three times four is twelve.
   • Six times seven equals forty-two.
   • What is nine times nine?

2. that much moreused with a number to show how many times greater, more, or as much something is, compared to something else

   Times goes before a comparative adjective or adverb (three times faster), before as plus the plain adjective or adverb (three times as fast), or directly before a noun or as many/as much (three times the price, ten times as many people).

   • This car is three times faster than the old one.
   • She earns ten times as much as I do.
   • The new office is three times the size of the old one.
   • Ten times as many people came this year.

   Collocations

   phrase times as much, times as many, times better, times higher, times the size

   For translators (sense 2)

   Grammar trap Times combines with a comparative (three times bigger), with as plus the plain adjective (three times as big), or directly with a noun (three times the price); many languages use only one of these patterns.

See also time (the sense of time meaning an occasion something happens, which this preposition builds on)