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What's The Definition Of Multiple?

[n] the product of a quantity by an integer; "36 is a multiple of 9"
[adj] 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"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Multiple: aggregate | bigeminal | binary | denary | double | doubled | dual | duple | duplex | eightfold | fivefold | fold | fourfold | manifold | multiplex | ninefold | nonuple | octuple | quadruple | quadruplex | quadruplicate | quaternary | quaternate | quintuple | septuple | sevenfold | sextuple | sixfold | tenfold | ternary | threefold | treble | triple | triplex | triune | twofold

Related Terms | Find terms related to Multiple: allotropic | billion | considerable | diversiform | ever so many | full many | heaped-up | heteromorphic | heteromorphous | increase | increased | jillion | manifold | many | metamorphic | metamorphotic | million | multifarious | multifold | multiform | multiphase | multiplex | multiplication | multiplication table | multiplied | multiplier | multiplying | multitudinal | multitudinous | myriad | no few | not a few | numerous | polymorphic | polymorphous | polynomial | proliferation | protean | proteiform | quite some | tables | thousand | very many | zillion

See Also | double | lcm | least common multiple | lowest common multiple | mathematical product | product | quadruple | triple

Multiple In Webster's Dictionary

\Mul"ti*ple\, a. [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} (Chem.), 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 multiplies 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}, 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} (Biol.), a coalescence of many cells (as where an indefinite number of am[oe]boid cells flow together into a single mass) from which conjugation proper and even fertilization may have been evolved. {Multiple fruits}. (Bot.) See {Collective fruit}, under {Collective}. {Multiple star} (Astron.), several stars in close proximity, which appear to form a single system.
\Mul"ti*ple\, n. (Math.) A quantity containing another quantity a number of times without a remainder. Note: {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 least number that will do this; thus, 12 is the least common multiple of 3 and 4.

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