Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To increase the amount, number, or degree of.
- v. Mathematics To perform multiplication on.
- v. To grow in amount, number, or degree. See Synonyms at increase.
- v. To breed or propagate.
- v. Mathematics To perform multiplication.
- adv. In many or multiple ways.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To make manifold; increase in number or quantity; make more by natural generation or reproduction, or by accumulation, addition, or repetition: as, to multiply men or horses; to multiply evils.
- In arithmetic, to perform the operation of multiplication upon. See multiplication, 2.
- To increase (the precious metals) by alchemical means. See multiplication, 3.
- To grow or increase in number or extent; extend; spread.
- In arithmetic, to perform the process of multiplication. See multiplication, 2.
- To increase gold or silver by alchemical means.
- In a manifold way.
Wiktionary
- adv. In many or multiple ways.
- v. transitive To increase the amount, degree or number of (something).
- v. transitive, arithmetic To perform multiplication on (a number).
- v. intransitive To grow in number.
- v. intransitive To breed or propagate.
- v. intransitive, arithmetic To perform multiplication.
- v. transitive, rare To be a factor in a multiplication with (another factor).
- n. computer science An act or instance of multiplying.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To increase in number; to make more numerous; to add quantity to.
- v. (Math.) To add (any given number or quantity) to itself a certain number of times; to find the product of by multiplication. See the Note under Multiplication.
- v. obsolete To increase (the amount of gold or silver) by the arts of alchemy.
- v. To become greater in number; to become numerous.
- v. To increase in extent and influence; to spread.
- v. obsolete To increase amount of gold or silver by the arts of alchemy.
WordNet 3.0
- v. combine by multiplication
- v. have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms)
- v. have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant
- v. combine or increase by multiplication
- adv. in several ways; in a multiple manner
Etymologies
- From Old French multiplier, from Latin multiplicō, from multi ("many") + plicō ("I fold"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English multiplien, from Old French multiplier, from Latin multiplicāre, from multiplex, multiplex; see multiplex. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“You want the line art layer to be in multiply mode, this effectively makes the white parts transparent, letting the colour layer underneath show through.”
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Diary of a Cartoonist: Episode 11
“When the "*" token is matched, we call the multiply instruction, and so on.”
“The highest ranked sequences are then allowed to "multiply" - copied and subjected to random changes.”
“The cells are no longer able to divide and multiply, which is why retinoblastoma occurs very rarely after the age of 5 years.”
Retinoblastoma - Diagnosing and Treating Retinoblastoma in Children
“Transliteration from Russian is standardized, but transliteration from Kazakh offers several options Kazakh is written with Cyrillic letters, but at least two additional characters, so the possibilities in English multiply.”
“They showed that the reticulum can be described as a multiply folded, more or less deflated sack occupying most of the cytoplasm.”
“A pasture can be improved by encouraging the good grasses to grow and multiply, that is, grasses which are richest in fodder units.”
“Many of the issues involved are of a so highly technical nature as to confuse the layman, especially when Hebrew terms multiply, that he believes the issues must be left to professional theologians and is all too ready to follow their guidance if they adopt, as is often the case, a tone of utter finality.”
“The bugle calls multiply till the woods seem filled with an advancing army and the yells split the sky.”
“You might want to practice this now, in your mind (or in the mirror!), before summer hits and catcalls multiply exponentially:”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘multiply’.
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RELI - Genesis
Protagonists and relevant words in the Book of Creation (Source: King James Bible)
Laban, circumcise, beget, Esau, Rebekah, speckle, Sodom, Pharaoh, Canaanite, Canaan, Jacob, Lot and 1286 more...
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RELI - words with Biblical connotations
Words in the Bible evoking biblical stories or with special spiritual meaning. Proper names have been reduced to the minimum.
ark, judgement, holy, saint, baptism, spirit, love, eternal, altar, balsam, covenant, flood and 1115 more...
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unknown to numerous
manifold, numerous, multiplied, complicated, continuum, copy, graph, cyclostyle, polygraph, hectograph, mimeograph, multiply and 35 more...
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Here's a tip for you.
tip, tips, Tip, tipping, tip jar, tip-cat, tip-cheese, Tippi Hedren, tipi, Tipperary, tipsy, Tip O'Neill and 75 more...
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Spreadsheet Key words
Key words
row, column, formula, spreadsheet, add, subtract, divide, multiply, calculation, average, minimum, maximum and 2 more...
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Bi-sonics
Allophonic homographs. Words that are pronounced at least 2 ways, having different senses. 'august' and 'polish' are less ambiguous since capitalization make the correct pronunciation clear (at lea...
sow, row, dove, polish, precedent, rewet, lower, read, bass, patent, primer, tear and 102 more...
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Algebra
distributive, associative, commutative, identity, zero, prime, factorization, integer, multiply, divide, fraction
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algebra
constant, variable, coefficient, term, similar, like, combine, expression, equation, solve, solution, distribute and 42 more...
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allophonic homographs
Two words, one spelling, two pronunciations
multiply, arithmetic, dove, lead, periodic, unionized, lather
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