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English noun: multiplication | |||
| 1. | multiplication (act) the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production | ||
| Synonyms | generation, propagation | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | breeding, facts of life, procreation, reproduction | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | biogenesis, biogeny | ||
| 2. | multiplication (process) a multiplicative increase | ||
| Samples | Repeated copying leads to a multiplication of errors. This multiplication of cells is a natural correlate of growth. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | growth, increase, increment | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | doubling, quadrupling, quintupling, tripling | ||
| 3. | multiplication (act) an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of division; the product of two numbers is computed | ||
| Samples | The multiplication of four by three gives twelve. Four times three equals twelve. | ||
| Synonyms | times | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | arithmetic operation | ||
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