multiplication
Other forms: multiplications
In math, multiplication is when you add a number to itself a certain number of times. The multiplication of 3 times 2 gives you an answer of 6. if you put two bunnies in a cage and end up with six, that's a different type of multiplication.
Multiplication falls under the mathematical category of arithmetic, and it's usually taught after addition and subtraction. When you memorize your times tables in school, you're learning multiplication. In science, the word multiplication is sometimes used to talk about the increase of an organism through generations of reproducing, like the multiplication of a farmer's sheep flock as more lambs are born. The Latin root word is multiplicare, "to increase."
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an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of division; the product of two numbers is computed“the multiplication of four by three gives twelve”synonyms: timestype of:arithmetic operationa mathematical operation involving numbers
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a multiplicative increase“repeated copying leads to a multiplication of errors”“this multiplication of cells is a natural correlate of growth”types:doublingincrease by a factor of twoquadruplingincrease by a factor of fourquintuplingincreasing by a factor of fivetriplingincrease by a factor of three
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the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such productionsynonyms: generation, propagationtypes:type of:breeding, facts of life, procreation, reproductionthe sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring
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