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词汇 multiplying
释义 multiplying
present participle ofmultiply
multiply
verb
uk /ˈmʌl.tɪ.plaɪ/ us /ˈmʌl.tə.plaɪ/
[ T or I ] mathematics specialized
to add a number to itself a particular number of times:
If you multiply seven by 15 you get 105.
When you multiply two odd numbers, is the answer always odd?
I remember learning how to multiply and divide.
Compare
add
divideverb(CALCULATE)
subtract
[ T or I ]
to increase, or to increase something, very much in number: 大幅增加;乘,使相乘
Alzheimer's Disease affects more than 4 million Americans today, and the number is expected to multiply rapidly as the population ages.
Major publishers are multiplying the number of titles offered in digital form.
[ I ]
of living things, to increase by producing new young animals, bacteria, etc.:
18 birds multiplied to 100 in just three years.
In warm weather these germs multiply rapidly.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Addition, subtraction, multiplication & division
add
add (something) up
addition
addition sign
additive
arithmetical
half
halve
highest common factor
power
quadruply
quintuple
quotient
recursion
round something down
sextuple
square
subtract
table
treble

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Increasing and intensifying

Related word


multiplication

Examples of multiplying


multiplying

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


In many cases parasites are incapable of surviving and multiplying in the absence of a host organism.
The survival for the first year was estimated by multiplying the matrix detailing the monthly probabilities by itself between 1 and 12 times.
The free electron density was calculated multiplying the atomic density of the element for its electron valence.
An expected frequency is then obtained by multiplying the sample size by all marginal proportions for the values in the specific pattern.
I calculated the index by multiplying each country's energy import prices by their share in total imports of the six nations.
The multitude of guidelines and regulations adds to the interpretational problems by multiplying the incompatible requests for action.
Where necessary, prices were adjusted by multiplying by the ratio of health price indices (7).
The village biomass was estimated by multiplying the total land area under fallow by the biomass density index obtained from the remote sensing analysis.
Structure volume was determined by averaging the area of the top and bottom of each structure and multiplying this by its height.
The power integrals are obtained by respectively multiplying by ys and vi.
Multiplying instances of such deadlocks builds up a stifling atmosphere in the text, crushing the reasonable reader's silent replies.
Lost production can therefore be calculated by multiplying the time absent from work by the wage rate.
The risk of a given shipment is then obtained by multiplying the distance travelled by this unit risk factor.
Thus, we calculate the scale of aspiration-driven pressure for freedom by multiplying the absolute level of liberty aspirations by the previous lack of freedom.
The weighted mean percentage parasitism was determined by dividing the number of parasitoids emerged by the correction factor (1.34) and multiplying by 100.
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