Definition of multiply

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Multiply (v. t.) To increase in number; to make more numerous; to add quantity to.

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Polyhedron :: Polyhedron (n.) A polyscope, or multiplying glass..
Propagate :: Propagate (v. t.) To multiply; to increase.
Reduplicate :: Reduplicate (v. t.) To redouble; to multiply; to repeat.
Breed :: Breed (v. i.) To bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply itself; to be pregnant.
Polygraph :: Polygraph (n.) An instrument for multiplying copies of a writing; a manifold writer; a copying machine.
Quadruple :: Quadruple (v. t.) To multiply by four; to increase fourfold; to double; to double twice.
Siderography :: Siderography (n.) The art or practice of steel engraving; especially, the process, invented by Perkins, of multiplying facsimiles of an engraved steel plate by first rolling over it, when hardened, a soft steel cylinder, and then rolling the cylinder, when hardened, over a soft steel plate, which thus becomes a facsimile of the original. The process has been superseded by electrotypy..
Multiplier :: Multiplier (n.) An instrument for multiplying or increasing by repetition or accumulation the intensity of a force or action, as heat or electricity. It is particularly used to render such a force or action appreciable or measurable when feeble. See Thermomultiplier..
Polyautography :: Polyautography (n.) The act or practice of multiplying copies of one's own handwriting, or of manuscripts, by printing from stone, -- a species of lithography..
Polyacoustic :: Polyacoustic (a.) Multiplying or magnifying sound.
Diatom :: Diatom (n.) One of the Diatomaceae, a family of minute unicellular Algae having a siliceous covering of great delicacy, each individual multiplying by spontaneous division. By some authors diatoms are called Bacillariae, but this word is not in general use..
Teem :: Teem (v. i.) To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply..
Gemmule :: Gemmule (n.) One of the imaginary granules or atoms which, according to Darwin's hypothesis of pangenesis, are continually being thrown off from every cell or unit, and circulate freely throughout the system, and when supplied with proper nutriment multiply by self-division and ultimately develop into cells like those from which they were derived. They are supposed to be transmitted from the parent to the offspring, but are often transmitted in a dormant state during many generations and are the
Bacterium :: Bacterium (n.) A microscopic vegetable organism, belonging to the class Algae, usually in the form of a jointed rodlike filament, and found in putrefying organic infusions. Bacteria are destitute of chlorophyll, and are the smallest of microscopic organisms. They are very widely diffused in nature, and multiply with marvelous rapidity, both by fission and by spores. Certain species are active agents in fermentation, while others appear to be the cause of certain infectious diseases. See Bacillus
Pluralize :: Pluralize (v. t.) To multiply; to make manifold.
Digenesis :: Digenesis (n.) The faculty of multiplying in two ways; -- by ova fecundated by spermatic fluid, and asexually, as by buds. See Parthenogenesis..
Polyscope :: Polyscope (n.) A glass which makes a single object appear as many; a multiplying glass.
Quadrate :: Quadrate (a.) Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square.
Decuple :: Decuple (v. t.) To make tenfold; to multiply by ten.
Multiplicatively :: Multiplicatively (adv.) So as to multiply.
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