Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having more than one layer or fold, as some shells.
- adjective Multiple.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Bearing many ridges or folds, as a gastropod shell.
- Consisting of many, or more than one.
- In botany, same as
multiplex , 2.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Consisting of many, or of more than one; multiple; multifold.
- adjective (Bot.) a flower that is double, or has an unusual number of petals in consequence of the abnormal multiplication of the parts of the floral whorls.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Consisting of many, or of more than one;
multiple ;multifold . - noun obsolete A
multiple ; a result ofmultiplication .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Or...as a Free Radical, you can make, hack, create, innovate, be productive and multiplicate to the only thing that really matters for the future of society, and that is rolling the ball of progress up that ever steeper slope.
Andy Kessler: Want to be a Free Radical? Here's How Andy Kessler 2011
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We just learned how to multiplicate and slaughter them in an industrial scale.
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There was one american guy whose name I forgot which could multiplicate numbers like no one.
Harold Bloom, literary lion, loses his shit on Potter fans…again « raincoaster 2007
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Beneedixitque eis, dicendo, Crescite et multiplicate vos, et replete aquas in maribus; et volatile multiplicet se in terra.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996
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Et benedixit illis Deus, dixitque ad eos Deus, Crescite, et multiplicate vos, et replete terram, et subjicite eam, et dominemini piscibus maris, et volatili coeli, et omni bestiae reptanti super terram.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996
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Similarly, working in the other direction, there is struggle between parts or tissues in the body, between cells in the body, between equivalent germ-cells, and, perhaps, as Weismann pictures, between the various multiplicate items that make up our inheritance.
Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926
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_multiplicate refraction_, caused by the unequal _density_ of the constituent parts of the _medium_, whereby the motion, action or progress of the Ray of light is hindred from proceeding in a streight line, and
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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i have a question! when an artist make a cd, why he can multiplicate his work to 100.000 pieces instead? is not a piracy thing? is easy to multiplicate a cd, but to work on
The Pirate Bay - Blog Dr LOLCAT 2010
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