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The process of repeating, or adding to itself, any given number or quantity a certain number of times; commonly, the process of ascertaining by a briefer computation the result of such repeated additions; also, the rule by which the operation is

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The process of repeating, or adding to itself, any given number or quantity a certain number of times; commonly, the process of ascertaining by a briefer computation the result of such repeated additions; also, the rule by which the operation is performed; -- the reverse of division. Note: The word multiplication is sometimes used in mathematics, particularly in multiple algebra, to denote any distributive operation expressed by one symbol upon any quantity or any thing expressed by another symbol. Corresponding extensions of meaning are given to the words multiply, multiplier, multiplicand, and product. Thus, since f = fx + fy , where f(x + y), fx, and fy indicate the results of any distributive operation represented by the symbol f upon x + y, x, and y, severally, then because of many very useful analogies f is called the product of f and x + y, and the operation indicated by f is called multiplication. Cf. Facient, n., 2. (more info) 1. The act or process of multiplying, or of increasing in number; the state of being multiplied; as, the multiplication of the human species by natural generation. The increase and multiplication of the world. Thackeray.

Related words: (words related to MULTIPLICATION)

• REPEAT
  To repay or refund . To repeat one's self, to do or say what one has already done or said. -- To repeat signals, to make the same signals again; specifically, to communicate, by repeating them, the signals shown at headquarters. Syn.
• ADDUCT
  To draw towards a common center or a middle line. Huxley.
• ADDLE-BRAIN; ADDLE-HEAD; ADDLE-PATE
  A foolish or dull-witted fellow.
• REPEATEDLY
  More than once; again and again; indefinitely.
• ASCERTAINMENT
  The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke.
• NUMBERFUL
  Numerous.
• ADDUCTION
  The action by which the parts of the body are drawn towards its (more info) 1. The act of adducing or bringing forward. An adduction of facts gathered from various quarters. I. Taylor.
• ASCERTAINABLE
  That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv.
• ADDITIVE
  Proper to be added; positive; -- opposed to subtractive.
• ADDOOM
  To adjudge. Spenser.
• PROCESSIVE
  Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge.
• ADDUCIBLE
  Capable of being adduced. Proofs innumerable, and in every imaginable manner diversified, are adducible. I. Taylor.
• PROCESSIONALIST
  One who goes or marches in a procession.
• COMPUTATION
  1. The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning. By just computation of the time. Shak. By a computation backward from ourselves. Bacon. 2. The result of computation; the amount computed. Syn. -- Reckoning; calculation; estimate;
• RESULTIVE
  Resultant. Fuller.
• ADDER'S-TONGUE
  A genus of ferns , whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue. The yellow dogtooth violet. Gray.
• ADDUCE
  To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege. Reasons . . . were adduced on both sides. Macaulay. Enough could not be adduced to satisfy the purpose of illustration.
• ADDITION
  That part of arithmetic which treats of adding numbers. (more info) 1. The act of adding two or more things together; -- opposed to subtraction or diminution. "This endless addition or addibility of numbers." Locke. 2. Anything added; increase;
• TIMESERVING
  Obsequiously complying with the spirit of the times, or the humors of those in power.
• COMMONLY
  1. Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue trough life. 2. In common; familiary. Spenser.
• HADDOCK
  A marine food fish , allied to the cod, inhabiting the northern coasts of Europe and America. It has a dark lateral line and a black spot on each side of the body, just back of the gills. Galled also haddie, and dickie. Norway haddock, a marine
• SADDER
  See SADDA
• SADDUCEEISM; SADDUCISM
  The tenets of the Sadducees.
• SIDESADDLE
  A saddle for women, in which the rider sits with both feet on one side of the animal mounted. Sidesaddle flower , a plant with hollow leaves and curiously shaped flowers; -- called also huntsman's cup. See Sarracenia.
• MISCOMPUTATION
  Erroneous computation; false reckoning.
• RADDE
  imp. of Read, Rede. Chaucer.
• BETIME; BETIMES
  1. In good season or time; before it is late; seasonably; early. To measure life learn thou betimes. Milton. To rise betimes is often harder than to do all the day's work. Barrow. 2. In a short time; soon; speedily; forth with. He tires betimes
• SPADDLE
  A little spade.
• WADDYWOOD
  An Australian tree ; also, its wood, used in making waddies.
• SWADDLE
  Anything used to swaddle with, as a cloth or band; a swaddling band. They put me in bed in all my swaddles. Addison.
• PADDLER
  One who, or that which, paddles.
• GADDISH
  Disposed to gad. -- Gad"dish*nes, n. "Gaddishness and folly." Abp. Leighton.