The Collaborative International Dictionary
Multiply \Mul"ti*ply\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Multiplied; p. pr. & vb. n. Multiplying.] [F. multiplier, L. multiplicare, fr. multiplex manifold. See Multitude, Complex.]
-
To increase in number; to make more numerous; to add quantity to.
Impunity will multiply motives to disobedience.
--Ames. (Math.) To add (any given number or quantity) to itself a certain number of times; to find the product of by multiplication; thus 7 multiplied by 8 produces the number 56; to multiply two numbers. See the Note under Multiplication.
-
To increase (the amount of gold or silver) by the arts of alchemy. [Obs.]
Multiplying gear (Mach.), gear for increasing speed.
Multiplying lens. (Opt.) See under Lens.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of multiply English)
Usage examples of "multiplying".
But he was a man of strange fancies and superstitions, and it was an inviolable rule with him never to make a gift that was not either one dollar or some power of seven—such as 7, 49, 343, 2,401, which numbers of dollars are produced by simply multiplying sevens together.
The constant, 216, is obtained by multiplying together the three numbers in any line.
It is derived from the multiplying square by merely reversing the diagonals, and the constant of the multiplying square is the cube of that of the dividing square derived from it.
In order to get five figures in the product there will, of course, always be a carry-over after multiplying the last figure to the left, and in every case higher than 4 we must carry over at least three times.
As this number includes the reflections, we must divide by 2, but we have also to remember that every horizontal row can change places with a vertical row, necessitating our multiplying by 2.
For while we tend to focus on only one situation at a time, the increased rate at which situations flow past us vastly complicates the entire structure of life, multiplying the number of roles we must play and the number of choices we are forced to make.
Renting has the net effect of multiplying the number of people with successive relationships to the same object, and thus reducing, on average, the duration of such relationships.
While educators are rapidly multiplying the number of alternative paths, the pace of diversification is by no means swift enough for the students.
We are multiplying these social enclaves, tribes and minicults among us almost as fast as we are multiplying automotive options.
It is criss-crossed with formal organizations and associations whose specialized journals, conferences and meetings are rapidly multiplying in number.
We are rapidly multiplying not merely types of work, but types of play as well.
At the very instant when his choices among material goods, education, culture consumption, recreation and entertainment are all multiplying, he is also given a bewildering array of social choices.
Ice grains and carbon dust, along with a host of other minerals, were sucked into pores dotting the shell and converted into thick protein-rich fluids to supply the multiplying cells within the main hull.
Len had pointed out the thin grasslike leaves multiplying along the shallow waters near the shores, fist-sized pods just beginning to rise above the surface.
Its nose had lengthened, creases and folds multiplying across the polyp, deepening, accentuating the creature’s streamlining.