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MULTIPLICATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production
Synonyms:
generation; multiplication; propagation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("multiplication" is a kind of...):
breeding; facts of life; procreation; reproduction (the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "multiplication"):
biogenesis; biogeny (the production of living organisms from other living organisms)
Derivation:
multiply (have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant)
multiply (have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms))
Sense 2
Meaning:
An arithmetic operation that is the inverse of division; the product of two numbers is computed
Example:
four times three equals twelve
Synonyms:
multiplication; times
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("multiplication" is a kind of...):
arithmetic operation (a mathematical operation involving numbers)
Derivation:
multiply (combine or increase by multiplication)
multiply (combine by multiplication)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A multiplicative increase
Example:
this multiplication of cells is a natural correlate of growth
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("multiplication" is a kind of...):
growth; increase; increment (a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "multiplication"):
doubling (increase by a factor of two)
quadrupling (increase by a factor of four)
quintupling (increasing by a factor of five)
tripling (increase by a factor of three)
Derivation:
multiply (combine or increase by multiplication)
Context examples:
This in turn facilitates the survival and multiplication of parasites, triggering the mucocutaneous form of the disease.
(Study uncovers cause of aggressive leishmaniasis strain, SciDev.Net)
In yeast, sugar degradation is linked via the intermediate fructose 1,6-biophosphate to the activation of Ras proteins, which stimulate the multiplication of both yeast and cancer cells.
(Scientists Reveal The Relationship Between Sugar, Cancer, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Multiplication or reproduction by cell division of immature precursor cells that have not achieved a fully differentiated state.
(Blast Cell Proliferation, NCI Thesaurus)
A quantity obtained by multiplication.
(Multiplicative Product, NCI Thesaurus)
In Matemagos, the player enters the Kingdom of Tabu'Ada (the kindom's name makes a reference to a word in Portuguese for multiplication tables), where a sorcerer opens a dimensional portal, allowing the entrance of evil creatures.
(Brazilian professor creates mobile game that combines fun with mathematics, Agência Brasil)
They extracted ribonucleic acid (RNA) sequences from each sample and converted them into stable complementary DNA (cDNA), which was processed using a technique called real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR), which amplifies the signal of genes activated by the multiplication of cDNA molecules.
(New method to classify brain tumour in children, SciDev.Net)
