What does multiple mean?
Definitions for multiple
ˈmʌl tə pəlmul·ti·ple
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Princeton's WordNet
multipleadjective
the product of a quantity by an integer
"36 is a multiple of 9"
multipleadjective
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"
Wiktionary
multiplenoun
A number that may be divided by another number with no remainder.
multiplenoun
Price-earnings ratio.
multiplenoun
One of a set of the same thing; a duplicate.
multipleadjective
Having more than one element, part, component, or function.
My Swiss Army knife has multiple blades.
Etymology: From multiple.
Webster Dictionary
Multipleadjective
containing more than once, or more than one; consisting of more than one; manifold; repeated many times; having several, or many, parts
Multiplenoun
a quantity containing another quantity a number of times without a remainder
Etymology: [Cf. F. multiple, and E. quadruple, and multiply.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Multiple
mul′ti-pl, adj. having many folds or parts: repeated many times.—n. a number or quantity which contains another an exact number of times.—n. Mul′tiplepoinding (Scots law), a process by which a person who has funds claimed by more than one, in order not to have to pay more than once, brings them all into court that one of them may establish his right.—Common multiple, a number or quantity that can be divided by each of several others without a remainder; Least common multiple, the smallest number that forms a common multiple. [L. multiplex—multus, many, plicāre, to fold.]
The Standard Electrical Dictionary
Multiple
A term expressing connection of electric apparatus such as battery couples, or lamps in parallel with each other. In the ordinary incandescent lamp circuits the lamps are connected in multiple. Synonym--Multiple Arc.
Editors Contribution
multiple
A known quantity.
Multiple amounts of people are getting married this year, the hotel has many weddings in preparation.
Submitted by MaryC on March 20, 2020
British National Corpus
Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'multiple' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4111
Adjectives Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'multiple' in Adjectives Frequency: #552
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of multiple in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of multiple in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of multiple in a Sentence
President Obama gets an A for tackling this problem from multiple angles, but in terms of addressing the biggest problem, the troubling overuse and misuse of antibiotics on large factory farms, the administration gets an incomplete.
It moreover attempts to propagate the well-established lie that cross-line assistance is improving despite multiple reports from the Secretary-General stating the opposite, and it removes any mention of the Security Council-supported political process.
With Trump picking fights on multiple fronts and no sides showing any willingness to back down, we may have to get used to this risk-averse environment in the near-term.
CFIUS needs to get much smarter and more agile, regimes like China’s nowadays can access knowhow through multiple channels both direct and indirect. CFIUS’s mandate needs to be flexible enough to cover all those currently existing and new schemes as they emerge.
This is currently being treated as a multiple homicide investigation.
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- متعددArabic
- múltipleCatalan, Valencian
- násobekCzech
- flereDanish
- Vielfache, mehrereGerman
- multoblaEsperanto
- multiple, múltiploSpanish
- مضرب, چندتایی, چندگانهPersian
- usea, moninkertainen, moni, monikertaFinnish
- multipleFrench
- többszörös, többHungarian
- 倍数, 多重Japanese
- taureaMāori
- meerdere, veelvoudDutch
- złożony, wieloraki, wielokrotność, wielokrotnyPolish
- múltiplos, múltiploPortuguese
- multipluRomanian
- кратное число, несколько, многочисленный, кратный, много, множество, кратное, множественный, многократныйRussian
- višestrukSerbo-Croatian
- flera, multipel, flera styckenSwedish
- หลายอย่างThai
- çokluTurkish
- NhiềuVietnamese
- 多种Chinese
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