multiplied

Verb

multiply (third-person singular simple present multiplies, present participle multiplying, simple past and past participle multiplied)

1. (transitive) To increase the amount, degree or number of (something).
   • The motives to refuse obedience to government are many and strong ; impunity will multiply and enforce them1786, Fisher Ames, Lucius Junius Brutus
2. (transitive) To perform multiplication on (a number).
   • when you multiply 3 by 7, you get 21; he multiplied several numbers
3. (intransitive) To grow in number.
   • I suspect that cancer doesn't give a rat's ass whether you have a positive mental attitude. It just sits in there multiplying away, whether you are admirably stoic or weeping and wailing.2002 February 18, Molly Ivins, “Who Needs Breasts, Anyway?”, in TIME, archived from the original on 11 Feb 2002
4. (intransitive) To breed or propagate.
   • [The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across.[…]Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, and that in several cases these bacteria were dividing and thus, by the perverse arithmetic of...2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845, archived from the original on 08 Mar 2023
5. (intransitive) To perform multiplication.
   • He had been multiplying, but it occurred to him he needed to resolve the exponents, first.
6. (rare, transitive) To be a factor in a multiplication with (another factor).
   • This follows a similar process, counters having to be removed and replaced at each stage of the remaining part of the calculation except the final one, where 2 multiplies 3 to give 6.1983, Graham Flegg, Numbers, Dover, published 2002, →ISBN, page 154

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