Definition of multiply

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Multiply (v. t.) To add (any given number or quantity) to itself a certain number of times; to find the product of by multiplication; thus 7 multiplied by 8 produces the number 56; to multiply two numbers. See the Note under Multiplication.

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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..
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..
Propagate :: Propagate (v. t.) To multiply; to increase.
Multiplier :: Multiplier (n.) An instrument for multiplying or increasing by repetition or accumulation the intensity of a force or action, as heat or electricity. It is particularly used to render such a force or action appreciable or measurable when feeble. See Thermomultiplier..
Gemmiferous :: Gemmiferous (a.) multiplying by buds.
Mechanography :: Mechanography (n.) The art of mechanically multiplying copies of a writing, or any work of art..
Multiply :: Multiply (v. t.) To increase (the amount of gold or silver) by the arts of alchemy.
Multiplicative :: Multiplicative (a.) Tending to multiply; having the power to multiply, or incease numbers..
Multiply :: Multiply (v. i.) To become greater in number; to become numerous.
Meride :: Meride (n.) A permanent colony of cells or plastids which may remain isolated, like Rotifer, or may multiply by gemmation to form higher aggregates, termed zoides..
Jack :: "Jack (n.) A system of gearing driven by a horse power, for multiplying speed..
Polyscope :: Polyscope (n.) A glass which makes a single object appear as many; a multiplying glass.
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..
Digenesis :: Digenesis (n.) The faculty of multiplying in two ways; -- by ova fecundated by spermatic fluid, and asexually, as by buds. See Parthenogenesis..
Papyrography :: Papyrography (n.) The process of multiplying copies of writings, etc., by means of the papyrograph..
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..
Multiplicatively :: Multiplicatively (adv.) So as to multiply.
Double :: Double (a.) To increase by adding an equal number, quantity, length, value, or the like; multiply by two; to double a sum of money; to double a number, or length..
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..
Breed :: Breed (v. i.) To bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply itself; to be pregnant.
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