multiple
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Adjective (1)
- having or involving or consisting of more than one part or entity or individual“multiple birth”“multiple ownership”“made multiple copies of the speech”“his multiple achievements in public life”“her multiple personalities”“a pineapple is a multiple fruit”Opposite singleSimilar double, ternary, manifold, quadruple, septuple, bigeminal, binary, triune +10 more
Noun (1)
- the product of a quantity by an integer“36 is a multiple of 9”Type of product, mathematical productKinds triple, quadruple, lowest common multiple, double
a state or condition markedly different from the norm
Translations
Adjective many, more than one
- Spanish
- múltiple
- French
- multiple
- German
- mehrfach
- Italian
- multiplo
- Portuguese
- múltiplo
- Russian
- многокра́тный mnogokrátnyj
- Arabic
- متعدد mutaʕaddid
- Chinese
- 多种 duōzhǒng
- Japanese
- 複数の fukusū no
- Dutch
- meerdere
15 more languages
- Polish
- wieloraki
- Swedish
- flerfaldig
- Indonesian
- multipel
- Hungarian
- több
- Portuguese (PT)
- múltiplo
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 多種 duōzhǒng
- Catalan
- múltiple
- Danish
- mangfoldig
- Esperanto
- multobla
- Finnish
- moninkertainen
- Georgian
- მრავალჯერადი mravaljeradi
- Hebrew
- רב rav
- Icelandic
- margfaldur
- Norwegian
- mangfoldig
- Romanian
- multiplu
Noun multiple of a number (maths)
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: Cf. F. multiple, and E. quadruple, and multiply.
Containing more than once, or more than one; consisting of more than one; manifold; repeated many times; having several, or many, parts.
Law of multiple proportion Chemistry, the generalization that when the same elements unite in more than one proportion, forming two or more different compounds, the higher proportions of the elements in such compounds are simple multiples of the lowest proportion, or the proportions are connected by some simple common factor; thus, iron and oxygen unite in the proportions FeO, Fe2O3, Fe3O4, in which compounds, considering the oxygen, 3 and 4 are simple multiplies of 1. Called also the Law of Dalton or Dalton's Law, from its discoverer. — Multiple algebra, a branch of advanced mathematics that treats of operations upon units compounded of two or more unlike units. — Multiple conjugation Biology, a coalescence of many cells (as where an indefinite number of amoeboid cells flow together into a single mass) from which conjugation proper and even fertilization may have been evolved. — Multiple fruits. Botany See Collective fruit, under Collective. — Multiple star Astronomy, several stars in close proximity, which appear to form a single system.
Mathematics A quantity containing another quantity an integral number of times without a remainder.
☞ A common multiple of two or more numbers contains each of them a number of times exactly; thus, 24 is a common multiple of 3 and 4. The least common multiple is the smallest number that will do this; thus, 12 is the least common multiple of 3 and 4 (abbreviated LCM).
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54