| multiplication | | |
| n. (act) | 1. generation, multiplication, propagation | the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production. |
| ~ facts of life, procreation, breeding, reproduction | the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring. |
| ~ biogeny, biogenesis | the production of living organisms from other living organisms. |
| n. (process) | 2. multiplication | a multiplicative increase.; "repeated copying leads to a multiplication of errors"; "this multiplication of cells is a natural correlate of growth" |
| ~ doubling | increase by a factor of two.; "doubling with a computer took no time at all" |
| ~ increment, growth, increase | a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important.; "the increase in unemployment"; "the growth of population" |
| ~ quadrupling | increase by a factor of four. |
| ~ quintupling | increasing by a factor of five. |
| ~ tripling | increase by a factor of three. |
| n. (act) | 3. multiplication, times | 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" |
| ~ arithmetic operation | a mathematical operation involving numbers. |
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