Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having, relating to, or consisting of more than one individual, element, part, or other component; manifold.
- n. A number that may be divided by another number with no remainder: 4, 6, and 12 are multiples of 2.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Manifold; having many parts or relations.
- Consisting of more than one complete individual.
- n. In arithmetic, a number produced by multiplying another by a whole number: as, 12 is a multiple of 3, the latter being a submultiple or aliquot part of the former.
- n. In telephony, a multiple jack. (See jack.)
- n. Arranged with all positive terminals, on the one hand, and all negative terminals, on the other, in direct metallic connection: said of motors, generators, voltaic cells, and the like.
Wiktionary
- adj. Having more than one element, part, component or function
- n. A number that may be divided by another number with no remainder; thus 14, 21 and 70 are multiples of 7
- n. Price-earnings ratio.
- n. One of a set of the same thing; a duplicate.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Containing more than once, or more than one; consisting of more than one; manifold; repeated many times; having several, or many, parts.
- n. A quantity containing another quantity an integral number of times without a remainder.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the product of a quantity by an integer
- adj. having or involving or consisting of more than one part or entity or individual
Etymologies
- French, from Old French, from Late Latin multiplum, a multiple : Latin multi-, multi- + Latin -plus, -fold; see pel-2 in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“As a result, Unicode includes multiple representations (or «multiple spellings») for the same text elements. ”
“Using a keyword multiple times could improve your score with the ATS if it was programmed to find resumes that featured it, according to Matt Sigelman, CEO of Burning Glass, which makes the search software behind many leading ATS programs.”
“LOL I messed up the title multiple times while posting about this in other places, don't worry XD;”
“Leilani successfully defended the title multiple times over the next few months.”
“A North African waiter at New York's Waldorf Astoria was forced by hotel management to change his name multiple times to keep him from scaring guests.”
“(MeSH) browser accepts it, it substitutes the term multiple personality disorder”
“Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd also referred to what he called multiple "feelers" from the Tripoli government, saying the Libyan leader's end "may come sooner" than expected.”
“The CLSA report, issued Feb. 21, pointed to what it described as "multiple and sometimes significant differences in audited and unaudited statements," involving, among other things, realized losses on derivatives and bank loans.”
The Wall Street Journal: Olam Chief Disputes Concerns Raised by CLSA
“The report quotes what it calls multiple credible sources saying party membership is an important factor in obtaining university admissions, employment opportunities, food aid and other benefits controlled by the government.”
Voice of America: Ethiopia Declines to Respond to US Rights Charges
“This insistence has been a lucrative one for Mr. Sehgal, whose works — some of which exist in what he calls multiple editions — have reportedly been bought by collectors for sums in the six figures.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘multiple’.
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mult-, multi-
having many
multicolored, multilateral, multimillionaire, multiple, multiplex, multitude
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