multiplication

multiply | American Dictionary

multiply
verb[ I/T ]
us/ˈmʌl·təˌplɑɪ/

multiplyverb[I/T] (calculate)

mathematics
to add a number to itself a particular number of times:
[ T ]If you multiply 7 by 15 you get 105.

multiplyverb[I/T] (INCREASE)

to increase greatly in number:
[ I ]The viruses multiply within the body.

multiply | Business English

multiply
verb[ I or T ]
uk /ˈmʌltɪplaɪ/us
to increase a lot in number or to make something do this:
Lawsuits against big drugs companies have multiplied in recent years.
According to Peruvian authorities, chemical fertilizers are multiplying coca leaf production by up to 1,000% per hectare.
if you multiply a number, you add another number to it a particular number of times:
multiply sth by 6/50/120, etc. Multiply your income by 3 to get a rough idea of what size of mortgage you can apply for.
be multiplied by 6/50/120, etc.The total figure must be multiplied by 75% to produce the amount paid out to investors.
They learn how to add, subtract, divide, and multiply.

Examples of multiply

multiply
In many cases parasites are incapable of surviving and multiplying in the absence of a host organism.
Such examples from the linguistic literature could be multiplied, but a survey of different types of incoherence may only increase the confusion.
The survival for the first year was estimated by multiplying the matrix detailing the monthly probabilities by itself between 1 and 12 times.
It follows from (1.5) that any components of the motion which are doubly periodic, multiply periodic, or chaotic, are precisely zero, and not just small.
For simplicity, this value was not multiplied by 10 as recommended by the manufacturer.
Unless one demonstration is more concise, elegant, or general than another, there is no reason to multiply proofs showing one and the same conclusion.
The free electron density was calculated multiplying the atomic density of the element for its electron valence.
The rice dressing was then kept at warm, outdoor temperatures for many hours, which likely allowed bacteria to further multiply before being served.
It would be easy to multiply examples of productive exchanges of this kind.
Generation of multiply charged ions at low and high laser-power densities.
Brownian dynamics study of a multiply-occupied cation channel - application to understanding permeation in potassium channels.
An expected frequency is then obtained by multiplying the sample size by all marginal proportions for the values in the specific pattern.
The aspects that seem promising tend in fact to multiply the questions rather than answer them.
To enhance safety and system per formance, multiply redundant sensors are installed for measuring key variables in order to create direct measurement redundancy.
Our interest is in elliptic operators whose second-order derivatives are multiplied by some parameter that is allowed to be close to zero.
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