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Multiply   /mˈəltəplˌaɪ/   Listen
verb
Multiply  v. t.  (past & past part. multiplied; pres. part. multiplying)  
1.
To increase in number; to make more numerous; to add quantity to. "Impunity will multiply motives to disobedience."
2.
(Math.) To add (any given number or quantity) to itself a certain number of times; to find the product of by multiplication; thus 7 multiplied by 8 produces the number 56; to multiply two numbers. See the Note under Multiplication.
3.
To increase (the amount of gold or silver) by the arts of alchemy. (Obs.)
Multiplying gear (Mach.), gear for increasing speed.
Multiplying lens. (Opt.) See under Lens.



Multiply  v. i.  
1.
To become greater in number; to become numerous. "When men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them."
2.
To increase in extent and influence; to spread. "The word of God grew and multiplied."
3.
To increase amount of gold or silver by the arts of alchemy. (Obs.)






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"Multiply" Quotes from Famous Books



... women are good rather than bad and have the highest ideals of government and politics. Therefore, to give the right to vote to this class is to increase overwhelmingly the number of good voters and to multiply the number of ...
— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V • Ida Husted Harper

... not multiply these illustrations. I have not made them entirely in vain, if I have succeeded in producing in the mind of the reader the conviction of these two things: first, that it is a most important and difficult part of the teacher's ...
— In the School-Room - Chapters in the Philosophy of Education • John S. Hart

... of discs made of carbon steel, in diameters up to and including 12 in., without any allowance for finishing multiply the per foot weight of round bar steel, shown herewith by the decimal equivalent of a foot given in ...
— The Working of Steel - Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel • Fred H. Colvin

... this—that the club-mosses, tree- ferns, pines, and other low-ranked vegetation of the coal afforded little or no food for animals, as the same families of plants do to this day; and if creatures can get nothing to eat, they certainly cannot multiply and replenish the earth. But, be that as it may, the fact that coal is ...
— Town Geology • Charles Kingsley

... his followers from all allegiance to the Sardinian Government, because that government chose to abolish the infamous monasteries, which had been so long supported at the expense of an oppressed people! Was this not interfering in temporal matters? I could multiply authorities, Governor, to an indefinite extent, sustaining Mr. Wesley's views, and falsifying all you say, but this would swell my reply beyond what I intended in the outset. Let me call your attention to Brownson's Review, for July, 1853, where you will find all this power, and even more, ...
— Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture; • William Gannaway Brownlow


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