multiply
About 5.10 uses per million words.
Meaning
- verb To increase the amount, degree or number of (something).
- verb To perform multiplication on (a number).
when you multiply 3 by 7, you get 21; he multiplied several numbers
- verb To grow in number.
- verb To breed or propagate.
- verb To perform multiplication.
He had been multiplying, but it occurred to him he needed to resolve the exponents, first.
- verb To be a factor in a multiplication with (another factor).
- noun An act or instance of multiplying.
- adverb In many or multiple ways.
Similar words
manifold reproduce procreate breed doubling multiplier redouble double replicate divide
Often followed by
the by and in this it each both that
Word family
multiplied multiplies multiplying
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