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multiplicity

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In mathematics , the multiplicity of a member of a multiset is the number of times it appears in the multiset. For example, the number of times a given polynomial equation has a root at a given point. The notion of multiplicity is important to be able to ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A monistic starting point for the cosmos requires an explanation to account for the variety and multiplicity in the cosmos. ▪ His eyes looked at you with multiplicity of purpose. ▪ Is it not clear that the multiplicity of often ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the property of being multiple a large number [syn: numerousness , numerosity ]

Usage examples of multiplicity.

Just as in the context of the dominant countries, here too the multiplicity and singularity of the multitude are negated in the straitjacket of the identity and homogeneity of the people.

Everywhere, when it theorises, it tends to establish static relations between composing unities which form a homogeneous and disconnected multiplicity.

They are a branching into part, into multiplicity, each single outgrowth bearing its trace of the common source.

Now a plurality thus concentrated like the Intellectual Kosmos is close upon The First--and reason certifies its existence as surely as that of soul--yet, though of higher sovereignty than soul, it is not The First since it is not a unity, not simplex as unity, principle over all multiplicity, must be.

I was born-the term for gender multiplicity was transgenderism, and there was no cure.

God now keeps them all in being and order, unconfused by their multiplicity, unoppressed by their magnitude, and not for an instant forgetting or neglecting either the mightiest or the least.

But Zeus--ordering all, governor, guardian and disposer, possessor for ever of the kingly soul and the kingly intellect, bringing all into being by his providence, and presiding over all things as they come, administering all under plan and system, unfolding the periods of the kosmos, many of which stand already accomplished--would it not seem inevitable that, in this multiplicity of concern, Zeus should have memory of all the periods, their number and their differing qualities?

All must be grouped under a unity which, as standing outside of all multiplicity and outside of any ordinary simplicity, is the veritably and essentially simplex.

There are as many of these alphabets as there are positions of his disk, and this multiplicity means that Alberti here devised the first polyalphabetic cipher.

Now Ham could distinguish a row of eyelike spots, and now a multiplicity of legs beneath them.

It is probable that just as the multiplicity and interrelation and minuteness of many factors have been the principal discoveries of genetics in recent years that the next few years will see a great deal of evidence following the important lead of Castle and Jennings, as to variation in factors.

Scientists have described the Kanam jaw, with its modern chin structure, in a multiplicity of ways.

The Madisonian notion that society needs a multiplicity of interests to counterbalance each other is particularly useful at this time in history.

Now, if memory were a matter of seal-impressions retained, the multiplicity of objects would have no weakening effect on the memory.

It refers to the fact that Mind is the former of all patterns, of all diversity, of all actions and activity, of all multiplicity in our sensory world, as well as in personal experience of our individual mind.