The Collaborative International Dictionary
increasing \increasing\ adj.
becoming greater or larger; as, increasing prices. [Narrower terms: accretionary ; {augmenting, augmentative, building ; {expanding ; {flared, flaring ; {growing ; {incorporative ; {lengthening ; {maximizing ; {multiplicative ; {profit-maximizing ; {raising ; {accretive ; {rising ] {decreasing
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same as growing, 1. [prenominal]
Syn: growing(prenominal), incremental.
(Music) increasing in some musical quality. Opposite of decreasing. [Narrower terms: {accelerando ; {crescendo ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, from Medieval Latin multiplicativus, from multiplicat-, past participle stem of multiplicare (see multiply).
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or pertaining to multiplication. 2 (context mathematics of a function, etc. English) distributive#English over multiplication. 3 (context algebra English) Having multiplication as an operator. n. (context grammar English) A grammatical adverbial case in Finnish.
WordNet
adj. tending or having the power to multiply or increase in number or quantity or degree; "the multiplicative tendency of proportional representation"
Wikipedia
Multiplicative may refer to:
- Multiplication
- Multiplicative function
- Multiplicative group
- Multiplicative identity
- Multiplicative inverse
- Multiplicative order
- Multiplicative partition
- For the multiplicative numerals once, twice, and thrice, see English numerals
Usage examples of "multiplicative".
The net effect of the viewing conditions, including additive and multiplicative effects, may be termed an "atmosphere.
We use the term atmosphere to refer to the combined effects of a multiplicative process (e.
In 1955, he was the first to use the technique of multiplicative counts for bacterial colonies.