multiplicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmʌltɪˈplɪsɪti/
Forms: form: multiplicities
Etymology: From Latin multiplicitas.
Senses: examples: text: Without consideration of the colony character of Malaysia in terms of its consistent interculturation with imperial and neoimperial power, multiplicity can easily be mistheorised as representing Saidian Orientalism or expatriates—such theorisations can be drawn from superficial reinterpretations of Taiwan's Tenryuubito phenomenon in recent years and Japan's Datsu-A Ron statement during the Meiji period.
ref: 2017, Francis Chia-Hui Lin, Architectural Theorisations and Phenomena in Asia, page 194:
synonyms: word: manifoldness
word: manifoldness
word: manyhood
word: manyness
word: morefold
word: multeity
word: multipleness
word: multiplicity
word: nonunity
word: numerousness
glosses: The state of being made of multiple diverse elements.
examples: text: The coronary Thorns did not only express the scorn of the imposers, by that figure into which they were contrived; but did also pierce his tender and sacred temples to a multiplicity of pains, by their numerous acuminations.
ref: 1659, John Pearson, “Article IV”, in An Exposition of the Creed, 5th edition, published 1683, page 189:
text: They saddled themselves with the handling of light flows on a multiplicity of branch lines, and they sacrificed the speed, reliability and low cost of through train operation, even over the main arteries of the system.
ref: 1962 December, “Dr. Beeching previews the plan for British Railways”, in Modern Railways, page 377:
text: The combined events — the negotiations and the benefit — were a major step in addressing the multiplicity of concerns the group had been talking about for all those years at Doyles.
ref: 1990 February 4, Pam Mitchell, “Pro-Union And Queer”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 5:
synonyms: word: abundance
word: arseload
word: assload
word: bellyload
word: boatload
word: brimful
word: busload
word: bucketful
word: bucketload
word: butt-ton
word: bumload
word: buttload
word: cartload
word: crapload
word: deal
word: fuckload
word: fuckton
word: fuckwad
word: great deal
word: hantle
word: heap
word: hecatomb
word: helluvalot
word: horseload
word: lashings
word: load
word: lot
word: mampus
word: many
word: mass
word: metric fuckton
word: metric shitload
word: mickle
word: mountain
word: muckle
word: multiplicity
word: multitude
word: pile
word: ream
word: shedload
word: shitful
word: shitload
word: shitton
word: slew
word: spadeloads
word: sum
word: superflux
word: ton
word: trainload
word: truckload
word: tun
word: vaultful
word: wagonload
glosses: A large indeterminate number.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The number of values for which a given condition holds.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: The number of instances that can occur on a given end of a relationship.
examples: text: In short , we are not replacing the old idea that “entropy is the logarithm of the multiplicity (times Boltzmann's constant). ” Rather , we are retaining that idea but are generalizing the notion of multiplicity.
ref: 1999, Ralph Baierlein, Thermal Physics, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 329:
text: ... the maximum-entropy (maxent) solution is the one which occurs with greatest multiplicity.
ref: 1988, G. Erickson, C.R. Smith, Maximum-Entropy and Bayesian Methods in Science and Engineering: Volume 2: Applications, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 357:
qualifier: statistical mechanics
glosses: The number of microstates associated with a given macrostate.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
synonyms: plurality
systemhood
glosses: The condition whereby a person displays or experiences multiple distinct personalities or selves in one body.
Derived terms: algebraic multiplicity
geometric multiplicity
Related terms: cardinality