Definition of multiply

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Multiply (v. t.) To increase in number; to make more numerous; to add quantity to.

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Multiply :: Multiply (v. i.) To increase amount of gold or silver by the arts of alchemy.
Siderography :: Siderography (n.) The art or practice of steel engraving; especially, the process, invented by Perkins, of multiplying facsimiles of an engraved steel plate by first rolling over it, when hardened, a soft steel cylinder, and then rolling the cylinder, when hardened, over a soft steel plate, which thus becomes a facsimile of the original. The process has been superseded by electrotypy..
Polyacoustic :: Polyacoustic (a.) Multiplying or magnifying sound.
Schizophyte :: Schizophyte (n.) One of a class of vegetable organisms, in the classification of Cohn, which includes all of the inferior forms that multiply by fission, whether they contain chlorophyll or not..
Bacterium :: Bacterium (n.) A microscopic vegetable organism, belonging to the class Algae, usually in the form of a jointed rodlike filament, and found in putrefying organic infusions. Bacteria are destitute of chlorophyll, and are the smallest of microscopic organisms. They are very widely diffused in nature, and multiply with marvelous rapidity, both by fission and by spores. Certain species are active agents in fermentation, while others appear to be the cause of certain infectious diseases. See Bacillus
Papyrograph :: Papyrograph (n.) An apparatus for multiplying writings, drawings, etc., in which a paper stencil, formed by writing or drawing with corrosive ink, is used. The word is also used of other means of multiplying copies of writings, drawings, etc. See Copygraph, Hectograph, Manifold..
Zoogloea :: Zoogloea (n.) A colony or mass of bacteria imbedded in a viscous gelatinous substance. The zoogloea is characteristic of a transitory stage through which rapidly multiplying bacteria pass in the course of their evolution. Also used adjectively.
Multiply :: Multiply (v. t.) To increase in number; to make more numerous; to add quantity to.
Jack :: "Jack (n.) A system of gearing driven by a horse power, for multiplying speed..
Teem :: Teem (v. i.) To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply..
Multiply :: Multiply (v. t.) To increase (the amount of gold or silver) by the arts of alchemy.
Gemmiferous :: Gemmiferous (a.) multiplying by buds.
Diatom :: Diatom (n.) One of the Diatomaceae, a family of minute unicellular Algae having a siliceous covering of great delicacy, each individual multiplying by spontaneous division. By some authors diatoms are called Bacillariae, but this word is not in general use..
Multiply :: Multiply (v. i.) To become greater in number; to become numerous.
Polyautography :: Polyautography (n.) The act or practice of multiplying copies of one's own handwriting, or of manuscripts, by printing from stone, -- a species of lithography..
Reduplicate :: Reduplicate (v. t.) To redouble; to multiply; to repeat.
Polyhedron :: Polyhedron (n.) A polyscope, or multiplying glass..
Multiplicatively :: Multiplicatively (adv.) So as to multiply.
Propagate :: Propagate (v. t.) To multiply; to increase.
Climacteric :: Climacteric (n.) A period in human life in which some great change is supposed to take place in the constitution. The critical periods are thought by some to be the years produced by multiplying 7 into the odd numbers 3, 5, 7, and 9; to which others add the 81st year..
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