What is "multiplies"

Usage examples of "multiplies".

What feeds this source with the Puritan is the anxieties of a disturbed conscience which, forming for itself some idea of perfect justice, becomes rigid and multiplies the commandments it believes that God has promulgated.

For four months the municipality multiplies against it every kind of annoyance,[13] and, on the 16th of October, 1791, the Jacobins provoke a row in the theater against its officers.

But if we are alone, our preoccupation, by bringing beforeus the still distant and incessantly awaited moment with the frequencyand uniformity of a ticking pendulum, divides, or rather multiplies thehours by all the minutes which, had we been with friends, we should nothave counted.

But simply by quoting in this way an isolated line one multiplies its power of attraction tenfold.

You're right, of course-we'll never be sure that a treatment which multiplies the lifetime of a cell or a mouse by a thousand will do the same for a human being, until we've actually tried it.

Nor can you keep waking him up to ask his advice, because every journey in or out of susan multiplies the risks considerably, and even the nanotech you pump into him while he's still down and out can't fully compensate for the fact that the first susan technology he used was pre-ark.

Memory and reason feel like impediments, sullying the purity of a Standing Wave that multiplies on and on, filling an ever-expanding vessel.