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UK
/mˌʌltɪplɪkˈeɪʃən/
]
[ US /ˌməɫtəpɫəˈkeɪʃən/ ]
[ US /ˌməɫtəpɫəˈkeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production
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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
four times three equals twelve -
a multiplicative increase
this multiplication of cells is a natural correlate of growth
repeated copying leads to a multiplication of errors
How To Use multiplication In A Sentence
- This multiplication of coverage is cunningly designed to bamboozle the party media minders who sit in party headquarters with stop watches timing their contributions to ensure balance.
- We may be informed, for example, that the numbers have a dense linear ordering, that there are associative and commutative operations of addition and multiplication, and so on.
- The book contains addition, subtraction, multiplication and, very surprisingly for that period, also division.
- He was interested in the structure of rings of linear operators and realized that the central idempotents, that is, the operators E that commuted with all other operators in the ring under multiplication (that is, EL = LE for all L in the ring) and which were idempotent under multiplication The Algebra of Logic Tradition
- My mother would tell me about the school she attended in the bush, and how the children would line up in twos to march into school, chanting their multiplication tables.
- All this, it will be noticed, is a case of cell-multiplication, which differs from that which takes place in the unicellular organisms only in its being _invariably_ preceded (as far as we know) by karyokinesis, and in the resulting cells being all confined within a common envelope, and so in not being free to separate. Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions
- Problems can be created to cover all math operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division!
- For matrix multiplication, vectors without superscript are treated as columns and vectors with the T superscript as rows.
- However, multiplication is typically learned first and most individuals are more practiced on multiplication then division.
- Similarly, if we operate in reverse chronological order (i.e. from t=4 to t=1), the left shift will result in a multiplication by two.