multiply
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
multiply (multiplies, present participle multiplying; past and past participle multiplied)
- (transitive) To increase the amount, degree or number of (something).
- Impunity will multiply motives to disobedience.
- 1843, Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London
- It would indeed be easy to multiply modern authorities respecting locustal food; one more authority shall suffice, from which it will appear that the Arabs make a sort of locust bread.
- (transitive, arithmetic, with by) To perform multiplication on (a number).
- when you multiply 3 by 7, you get 21; he multiplied several numbers
- (intransitive) To grow in number.
- (intransitive) To breed or propagate.
- (intransitive, arithmetic) To perform multiplication.
- He had been multiplying, but it occurred to him he needed to resolve the exponents, first.
- (transitive, rare) To be a factor in a multiplication with (another factor).
- 1983, Graham Flegg, Numbers, 2002 Dover edition, ISBN 0486421651, page 154 :
- This follows a similar process, counters having to be removed and replaced at each stage of the remaining part of the calculation except the final one, where 2 multiplies 3 to give 6.
- 1993, Edward T. Dowling, Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of Mathematical Methods for Business and Economics, ISBN 0070176744, page 14 :
- Of all the possible combinations of factors above, only (2\cdot4)+(3\cdot5)=23. Carefully arranging the factors, therefore, to ensure that 2 multiplies 4 and 3 multiplies 5, we have
- 6x^2+23x+20=(2x+5)(3x+4)
- Of all the possible combinations of factors above, only (2\cdot4)+(3\cdot5)=23. Carefully arranging the factors, therefore, to ensure that 2 multiplies 4 and 3 multiplies 5, we have
- 1983, Graham Flegg, Numbers, 2002 Dover edition, ISBN 0486421651, page 154 :
- Synonyms: manifold
- French: multiplier
- German: vermehren
- Russian: приумно́жить
- Spanish: multiplicar
- French: multiplier
- German: multiplizieren
- Italian: moltiplicare
- Portuguese: multiplicar
- Russian: умножа́ть
- Spanish: multiplicar
- French: multiplier
- Russian: приумножа́ться
- Spanish: multiplicar, multiplicar
- French: multiplier
- Russian: размножаться
- Spanish: multiplicar, multiplicar
- French: faire la multiplication
- Russian: умножа́ть
- Spanish: multiplicar
multiply (plural multiplies)
- (computer science) An act or instance of multiplying.
- 1975, Byte (issues 1-8, page 14)
- The extended instruction set may double the speed again if a lot of multiplies and divides are done.
- 1975, Byte (issues 1-8, page 14)
multiply (not comparable)
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