Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Produced by multiplication by the same number or quantity; divisible by the same number or quantity.
- noun In arithmetic and geometry, one of two or more numbers or quantities produced by multiplying other numbers or quantities by the same number or quantity; one of two or more numbers or quantities divisible by the same number or quantity: as, mA, mB are equimultiples of A and B.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Multiplied by the same number or quantity.
- noun (Math.) One of the products arising from the multiplication of two or more quantities by the same number or quantity. Thus, seven times 2, or 14, and seven times 4, or 28, are
equimultiples of 2 and 4.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mathematics One of the
products arising from themultiplication of two or morevalues by the same value.
Etymologies
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equi- + multiple
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THEOREM IF foor magnittidei rM, N | O, P,) are proportional: then any equimultiple!
Instructions given in the drawing school established by the Dublin society 1769
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