Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The number that is or is to be multiplied by another. In 8 × 32, the multiplicand is 32.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In arithmetic, a number multiplied or to be multiplied by another, which is called the multiplier. See
multiplication , 2.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Math.) The number which is to be multiplied by another number called the multiplier. See Note under
multiplication .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun arithmetic A number that is to be
multiplied by another (themultiplier ).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the number that is multiplied by the multiplier
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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If either multiplicand is uncountable, the product is uncountable infinity (countable infinity is known as “aleph null”, and uncountable infinity as “aleph one” if I remember correctly.
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Hopefully this is a properly calculated +- value rather than a multiplicand.
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March 14, 2006, 9: 35 am wsop 2006 says: wsop 2006 authenticate: multiplicand embroidery pouncing! crumb loving,
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The opcode is there to provide the constant divisor or multiplicand for the instruction.
DOCUMENTATION: A86 Assembler Package by Eric Isaacson Chapter 5 1990
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The three terms made use of in multiplication are, the multiplicand, or number to be multiplied; the multiplier, or number that multiplies; and the product or answer, which is the amount of the multiplicand and multiplier.
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The master was writing them down on the blackboard, making them up as he went along, with due care working nines and eights and sevens into his multiplicand and dealing but sparsely with fives and twos and threes.
An Australian Lassie Lilian Turner
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That Dakin did not also was only due to the unavoidable fact that he had no multiplicand to set over the multiplier.
Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond Harry Alverson Franck 1921
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Ores are the multiplicand and man the multiplier in the product which represents value or availability.
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In short, man is the multiplier and the mineral substance is the multiplicand in the product known as value.
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In multiplying one three-place number by another I have the fixed habit of writing the multiplier under the multiplicand, the partial products under these, and the final product beneath all.
Increasing Human Efficiency in Business: A Contribution to the Psychology of Business 1910
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