multiplication (n.)

  1. the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production

    [ Syn: generation , propagation ]

  2. a multiplicative increase; repeated copying leads to a multiplication of errors; this multiplication of cells is a natural correlate of growth'

  3. 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

    [ Syn: times ]

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