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Multiplicity \Mul`ti*plic"ity\, n. [Cf. F. multiplicit['e].]
The quality of being multiple, manifold, or various; a state
of being many; a multitude; as, a multiplicity of thoughts or
objects. ``A multiplicity of goods.''
--South.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., from Middle French multiplicité, from Late Latin multiplicitas "manifoldness, multiplicity," from Latin multiplic- (see multiple). Related: Multiplicitous.
Wiktionary
n. 1 the state of being made of multiple diverse elements 2 (context mathematics English) the number of values for which a given condition holds 3 a large indeterminate number 4 (context software engineering UML English) The number of instances that can occur on a given end of a relationship, including 0..1, 1, 0..* or *, and 1..*.
WordNet
n. the property of being multiple
a large number [syn: numerousness, numerosity]
Wikipedia
Multiplicity is a 1996 American science fiction comedy film starring Michael Keaton and Andie MacDowell. The film was co-produced and directed by Harold Ramis. The original music score was composed by George Fenton.
Multiplicity is a computer program that enables one keyboard and mouse to access two or more client computers from a host computer. It was developed for Stardock as part of their ThinkDesk subscription service, but is now available separately.
Multiplicity is an assertion that there is more than one geo-historical trajectory. It is a philosophical concept that Edmund Husserl and Henri Bergson developed by analogy with Riemann's description of the mathematical concept. It forms an important part of the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, particularly in his collaboration with Félix Guattari, Capitalism and Schizophrenia (1972–80). In his Foucault (1986), Deleuze describes Michel Foucault's The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969) as "the most decisive step yet taken in the theory-practice of multiplicities."
Multiplicity may refer to:
In spectroscopy and quantum chemistry, the multiplicity of an energy level is defined as 2S+1, where S is the total spin angular momentum. The multiplicity is often equal to the number of possible orientations of the total spin relative to the total orbital angular momentum L, and therefore to the number of near– degenerate levels that differ only in their spin–orbit interaction energy. States with multiplicity 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 are respectively called singlets, doublets, triplets, quartets and quintets.
For example, the ground state of the carbon atom is a P state. The superscript three (read as triplet) indicates that the multiplicity 2S+1 = 3, so that the total spin S = 1. This spin is due to two unpaired electrons, as a result of Hund's rule which favors the single filling of degenerate orbitals. The triplet consists of three states with spin components +1, 0 and –1 along the direction of the total orbital angular momentum, which is also 1 as indicated by the letter P. The total angular momentum quantum number J can vary from L+S = 2 to L–S = 0 in integer steps, so that J = 2, 1 or 0.
However the equality of multiplicity and number of spin orientations is only true when S ≤ L. When S > L there are only 2L+1 orientations of total angular momentum possible, ranging from S+L to S-L. The ground state of the nitrogen atom is a S state, for which 2S + 1 = 4 in a quartet state, S = 3/2 due to three unpaired electrons. For an S state, L = 0 so that J can only be 3/2 and there is only one level even though the multiplicity is 4.
Multiplicity is a 2005 studio album by American drummer Dave Weckl.
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 count correctly without specifying exceptions (for example, double roots counted twice). Hence the expression, "counted with multiplicity".
If multiplicity is ignored, this may be emphasized by counting the number of distinct elements, as in "the number of distinct roots". However, whenever a set (as opposed to multiset) is formed, multiplicity is automatically ignored, without requiring use of the term "distinct".
Multiplicity is the use of multiple personality styles by a person. For example, a woman may adopt a kind, nurturing personality when dealing with her children but change to a more aggressive, forceful personality when going to work as a high-flying executive as her responsibilities change.
Rita Carter says evidence for multiplicity abounds and is found in history, and that when an individual states that they have been taken over by a spirit, soul, or ghost, they are saying that they are experiencing another personality. She says that feeling happy and carefree while in the company of your friends, but less so at home with family, is an example of multiple personality styles.
Jung proposed: "The many contains the unity of the one without losing the possibilities of the many."
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.