multiply
Part of speech: verb
noun
adv
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: arithmetic
computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
Etymology: From Old French multiplier, from Latin multiplicō, from multi (“many”) + plicō (“to fold”).
The noun presumably derives from the verb.
Base: ply
Affixes: multi-
Inflected forms:
form: multiplies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: multiplying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: multiplied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: multiplied
pos: verb
tags: past
form: multiplies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To increase the amount, degree or number of (something).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The motives to refuse obedience to government are many and strong ; impunity will multiply and enforce them
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.
gloss: To perform multiplication on (a number).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: when you multiply 3 by 7, you get 21; he multiplied several numbers
But that can be ignored, because the USTR has set ε at 4 and φ at 0.25, so when computed give an overall multiplier of 1 for the imports number. And multiplying by 1 makes no difference at all.
gloss: To grow in number.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To breed or propagate.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: [The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across.[…]Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, and that in several cases these bacteria were dividing and thus, by the perverse arithmetic of biological terminology, multiplying.
gloss: To perform multiplication.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He had been multiplying, but it occurred to him he needed to resolve the exponents, first.
I could add and subtract and multiply and divide, but I entered the wilderness when words became equations.
gloss: To be a factor in a multiplication with (another factor).
pos: verb
tags: rare
transitive
examples: 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.
Of all the possible combinations of factors above, only (2#92;cdot4)#43;(3#92;cdot5)#61;23. Carefully arranging the factors, therefore, to ensure that 2 multiplies 4 and 3 multiplies 5, we have
6x²#43;23x#43;20#61;(2x#43;5)(3x#43;4)
gloss: An act or instance of multiplying.
pos: noun
examples: The extended instruction set may double the speed again if a lot of multiplies and divides are done.
List the number of adds and multiplies for each of the forms (6) , (7), and (8).
gloss: In many or multiple ways.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having more than one ply or layer; multilayered.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 2,751,151. MULTIPLY PAPER SACKS. […] A multiply paper bag […] the plies of the side flaps being stepped longitudinally of the bag […]
Synonyms: manifold
Derived words: cross-multiply
demultiply
go forth and multiply
multiplee
multipliable
multiplicand
multiplication
multiplicatory
multiplier
multiplying glass
multiplying lens
overmultiply
postmultiply
premultiply
remultiplication
remultiply
unmultiplied
unmultiply
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