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The process of multiplying
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The mathematical operations of multiplication have several applications to music . Other than its application to the frequency ratios of intervals (e.g., Just intonation , and the twelfth root of two in equal temperament ), it has been used in other ways ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Compound \Com"pound\, [OE. compouned, p. p. of compounen. See Compound , v. t.] Composed of two or more elements, ingredients, parts; produced by the union of several ingredients, parts, or things; composite; as, a compound word. Compound substances are ...
WordNet
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n. an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of division; the product of two numbers is computed; "the multiplication of four by three gives twelve"; "four times three equals twelve" [syn: times ] the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context uncountable mathematics English) The process of computing the sum of a number with itself a specified number of times, or any other analogous binary operation that combines other mathematical objects.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., from Old French multiplicacion (12c.) "multiplication, duplication; multiplicity, diversity," from Latin multiplicationem (nominative multiplicatio ), noun of action from past participle stem of multiplicare (see multiply ). Mathematical sense ...
Usage examples of multiplication.
She moved a cautious step backwards, watching them asshe went, and not having any trouble now remembering her multiplication.
In ancient times, it was said, the folk had employed fire for similar purposes: however, during the Age of Multiplication fire had fallen out of use except for very special purposes, because most burnable substances were far too valuable for other applications.
In the presence of the Society Broca gave him verbally a task in multiplication, composed of some trillions to be multiplied by billions.
They eat mainly grass and greenstuffs, so what is the harm in encouraging their multiplication in captivity?
The Odynerus has for its instinctive mission to arrest the excessive multiplication of a lucerne weevil, no less than twenty-four of whose grubs are necessary to rear the offspring of the brigand, and nearly sixty gadflies are sacrificed to the growth of a single Bembex.
Long division was taught as a set of rules from a cookbook, with no explanation of how this particular sequence of short divisions, multiplications and subtractions got you the right answer.
On the principle of the multiplication and gradual divergence in character of the species descended from a common parent, together with their retention by inheritance of some characters in common, we can understand the excessively complex and radiating affinities by which all the members of the same family or higher group are connected together.
Tally, with his eighteen-attosecond memory cycle, could compute trillions of twenty-digit multiplications in the time of a human eye-blink.
As this multiplication progressed, the surrounding tissues would be destroyed, the channels plugged with bacilli.
But Abu gave his answers in exponential notation, so Belbo was unable to daunt Diotallevi with a screen full of endless zeros: a pale visual imitation of the multiplication of combinatorial universes, of the exploding swarm of all possible worlds.
The working is greatly simplified by a process of elimination, based on such considerations as that certain multiplications produce a repetition of figures, and that the whole number cannot be from 12 to 23 inclusive, since in every such case sufficiently small denominators are not available for forming the fractional part.
The failure may in some measure be ascribed to the abuse and multiplication of the crusades, which were preached at the same time against the Pagans of Livonia, the Moors of Spain, the Albigeois of France, and the kings of Sicily of the Imperial family.
The failure may in some measure be ascribed to the abuse and multiplication of the crusades, which were preached at the same time against the Pagans of Livonia, the Moors of Spain, the Albigeois of France, and the kings of Sicily of the Imperial family.
And thus we find that the simple division into two is the method of multiplication of the Amoeba, the lowest, simplest, and most absolute form of physical life that we know.
It appears in the endless multiplication of his personality into abstract types which mythology strives to make concrete.