Question: Here is one sentence: Oil field.
Here is another sentence: He longed for the fields of his youth.
Does the field mean the same thing in the two sentences?

Answer: the same meaning

Question: Here is one sentence: This multiplication of cells is a natural correlate of growth.
Here is another sentence: Repeated copying leads to a multiplication of errors.
Does the multiplication mean the same thing in the two sentences?

Answer: the same meaning

Question: Here is one sentence: Can you shed light on this problem?
Here is another sentence: He finally saw the light.
Does the light mean the same thing in the two sentences?

Answer: the same meaning

Question: Here is one sentence: The attraction of the book is precisely its narrowness of focus.
Here is another sentence: Frustrated by the narrowness of people's horizons.
Does the narrowness mean the same thing in the two sentences?

Answer:
the same meaning