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Multiplication   /mˌəltəpləkˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Multiplication

noun
1.
The act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production.  Synonyms: generation, propagation.
2.
A multiplicative increase.  "This multiplication of cells is a natural correlate of growth"
3.
An arithmetic operation that is the inverse of division; the product of two numbers is computed.  Synonym: times.  "Four times three equals twelve"



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"Multiplication" Quotes from Famous Books



... matter. The principles that we use in the big Highland Park plant seem to work equally well in every plant that we establish. It has never made any difference with us whether we multiplied what we were doing by five or five hundred. Size is only a matter of the multiplication table, anyway. ...
— My Life and Work • Henry Ford
... that if this present barbarism and anarchy of covetousness, miscalled modern civilisation, were tamed and drilled into something more like a Kingdom of God on earth: then we should not see the reckless and needless multiplication of liquor shops, which ...
— Health and Education • Charles Kingsley
... Brown, who delighted to agree with his younger partner when circumstances admitted it. "You are right there, certainly." Jones was observed to go through the multiplication table mentally, but he ...
— The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson - By One of the Firm • Anthony Trollope
... That a multiplication of combats should arise from a fractioning of forces is a matter of course, and the more immediate objects of separate combats will therefore come before us in the subject of a fractioning of forces; but these ...
— On War • Carl von Clausewitz
... The multiplication of mountain-ridges, described at the commencement of the third stanza of this Ode as a kind of Jacob's Ladder, leading to Heaven, is produced either by watery vapours or sunny haze; in the present instance by the latter cause. Allusions ...
— The Prose Works of William Wordsworth • William Wordsworth


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