Multiply

/ˈmʌltɪplaɪ/ · verb

Meaning

(transitive) To increase the amount, degree or number of (something)..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To increase the amount, degree or number of (something).
2. (transitive, arithmetic, with by) To perform multiplication on (a number).
3. (intransitive) To grow in number.
4. (intransitive) To breed or propagate.
5. (intransitive, arithmetic) To perform multiplication.
6. (transitive, rare) To be a factor in a multiplication with (another factor).
7. (computer science) An act or instance of multiplying.
8. In many or multiple ways.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

[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.

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.

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.

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Word Forms

• multiplies
• multiplying
• multiplied

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