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multiplication

/muhl-tuh-pli-key-shuhn/US // ˌmʌl tə plɪˈkeɪ ʃən //UK // (ˌmʌltɪplɪˈkeɪʃən) //

乘法,倍增,倍增法,乘法运算

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act or process of multiplying or the state of being multiplied.
    • : Arithmetic. a mathematical operation, symbolized by a × b, a ⋅ b, a ∗ b, or ab, and signifying, when a and b are positive integers, that a is to be added to itself as many times as there are units in b; the addition of a number to itself as often as is indicated by another number, as in 2×3 or 5×10.
    • : Mathematics. any generalization of this operation applicable to numbers other than integers, as fractions or irrational numbers.

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Examples

  • You kind of arrest things very early, so either maybe there is no disease or just very limited virus multiplication.

  • They were doing subtraction and addition and multiplication today, it must have been third grade.

  • This approach — a common way of trying to prove that rewriting systems terminate — would allow them to think of transformations of symbols as matrix multiplication.

  • Where Kobe and Shaq dealt in addition, LeBron and AD deal in multiplication.

  • Mathematicians say the group of real numbers is “closed” under multiplication, meaning that you never leave the group just by multiplying elements.

  • His company names all ended in an X—EBX, OGX, MMX—because in numerology, X stands for the multiplication of wealth.

  • The multiplication of love in the household is just pure delight.

  • He commissioned singer-songwriter Bob Dorough to set the multiplication tables to a rock music song.

  • "It was the miracle of the multiplication of gasoline," Saboia later told a Bolivian reporter.

  • When working together, people experience what Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid hero, called “the multiplication of courage.”

  • We have seen enough elsewhere of the multiplication of Commentaries on the Sentences of the Lombard and other scholastic works.

  • How many of the most important affairs of life can be demonstrated by means of the multiplication table?

  • Will the multiplication of red corpuscles continue so that men may become acclimatised much higher?

  • The majority of you no doubt know what the multiplication-table is, and I am sure you have thought it a pretty disagreeable thing.

  • The captain is an ambitious ass, he couldn't think his way through a multiplication table.