multiplyingn.
/ˈmʌltᵻplʌɪɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈməltəˌplaɪɪŋ/ 1. Probably: multiplicity.
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a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1965) Ecclus. i. 7 Þe disciplyne of wisdam to whom is it shewid & opened, & þe multepliyng of þe incomyng of it who vnderstood?
a1450 ( tr. Vegetius De Re Militari (Douce) f. 36v (MED) Þere fel greet perel in þe oost for defaute of multeplienge of signys & tokenes by whiche þat kniȝtis..were by myshap y-skatered out of here wardes.
2.
a. The action or process of increasing or augmenting something in number or amount; breeding, propagation.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > increase in quantity, number, or frequency
multiplicationa1387
increase1390
multiplyingc1390
manifolding1892
proliferation1904
the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > [noun]
i-streonc893
strainc950
akennessOE
spreadingOE
upspringc1000
akenningOE
akennednessOE
strainc1175
streningc1230
begetc1330
begettingc1330
engendrurec1350
generationa1382
gettinga1382
genderingc1384
multiplicationa1387
increase1390
prolificationa1393
procreationc1395
engenderinga1400
gendrure?a1400
engendure?a1425
progeniturec1429
propagation?1440
teemingc1450
breeda1500
geniturea1500
engenderment1507
progeneration1548
fathering1549
engender1556
race1561
multiplying1599
pullulation1641
progermination1648
reproduction1713
face-making1785
baby-making1827
begettal1864
fertility1866
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > [noun] > breeding
multiplying1599
matching1774
pregnancy test1915
pregnancy testing1938
the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > [noun]
multiplicationa1387
multiplying1707
plant breeding1896
c1390 G. Chaucer Pardoner's Tale 374 He shal haue multiplyyng of his grayn.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 145 Colueres..haueth conuersacioun in hire multipliynge.
c1450 (c1380) G. Chaucer House of Fame 801 Ech [circle in water] aboute other goynge Causeth of othres sterynge And multiplyinge.
1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iii. i. 77 The multiplynge of his goodes temporell.
a1500 (c1477) T. Norton Ordinal of Alchemy (BL Add.) (1975) 419 (MED) For multipliyng of herbis..nature hath prouidid That al thing onyd in the seed be diuidede.
1599 T. Moffett Silkewormes 47 What made thee shew thy multiplying pride, More in these egges, then all the egges beside?
1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 84 The Multiplying of Nobilitie, and other Degrees of Qualitie.
1652 J. Chetwind in J. Harington Briefe View Ep. Ded. This Authour..hath avoyded the needlesse multiplying of words.
1659 J. Milton Civil Power in Wks. (1851) V. 332 The multiplying and the aggravating of sin to them both.
1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 129 These four last Observations for the multiplying of Corn.
1800 C. Lamb Let. 6 Aug. in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1975) I. 220 I cram all I can in, to save a multiplying of letters.
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. ii. 26 Protozoa show the beginnings of cell-structure, of the great activities of life, of different kinds of multiplying, of sex.
1992 English 41 129 Raine's postmodernism..consists largely of the ludic multiplying of perspectives upon a stabilised subject-matter.
b. Alchemy. The action or an act of producing gold or silver by the transmutation of base metal. Now historical.
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the world > matter > alchemy > alchemical processes > [noun] > transmutation
multiplyingc1395
maturing?a1425
transmutation1478
projectiona1550
curtation1584
longation1584
tincting1599
maturation1617
c1395 G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Tale 1391 This multiplying blent so many oon.
1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie (new ed.) 3rd Serm. sig. Giiii (margin) These mixtures and multyplyinges are theft.
1553 Acts Privy Council (1892) IV. 254 Informacions, lettres and examinacions towching Whalley's accusacion for multiplying.
1693 W. Penn Some Fruits of Solitude §44. 18 Thou wilt have found the Art of multiplying.
1821 W. Scott Kenilworth II. iii. 37 Tell us your mystery of multiplying.
1947 J. Read Alchemist in Life, Lit. & Art i. 14 The puffers held that an initial supply of gold was necessary in gold-making, or ‘multiplying’.
3. The action or an act of finding the product of two or more quantities; multiplication.
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the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > [noun] > multiplication
multiplicationa1393
multiplying?a1400
ductionc1430
leadingc1430
composition1557
practice1562
postmultiplication1861
premultiplication1861
?a1400 Treat. Geom. 58 Multiply you by 12 þat same mesure; þan al þat comes of þat multiplyeng departe you by þe nonmbre of þe poyntes.
c1450 Art Nombryng in R. Steele Earliest Arithm. in Eng. (1922) 42 (MED) Me most bryng the last save one of the multipliyng into the last of þe nombre to be multipliede.
1594 T. Blundeville Exercises i. iv. f. 5 Before I teach you the true order of multiplying, I thinke it good to set you downe a table of Multiplycation.
1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 123 Cross-Multiplication is the Multiplying of Feet and Inches by Feet and Inches.
1968 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 114 1493/1 Computer science..is still largely concerned only with prodigiously long chains of simply addings and multiplyings.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married man > [noun] > husband > alleged term for company of
multiplyinga1450
a1450 Terms Assoc. in PMLA (1936) 51 603 (MED) A multeplynge of hosbandri.
1486 Bk. St. Albans sig. fvij A Multiplieng of husbondis.
Compounds
multiplying machine n. a mechanical device for finding the product of two numbers.
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1865 Sci. Amer. 15 July 38 (caption) Bickell's power-multiplying machine.]
1870 Rep. U.S. Commissioners Paris Universal Exhib. 1867 630 Except for the increased number of parts, a multiplying machine is only a counting machine in a new form.
1940 W. J. Eckert Punched Card Methods Sci. Computation ii. 6 In the multiplying machine the multiplicand and multiplier are read from the card.
1969 SIAM Rev. 11 430 Is it a coincidence that Leibniz also constructed the first known multiplying machine?
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1739 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) II. 53 Duchess is very well, though in a multiplying way.
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multiplyingadj.
/ˈmʌltᵻplʌɪɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈməltəˌplaɪɪŋ/ 1. Becoming more numerous, causing something to become more numerous; breeding, proliferating. †multiplying of: tending to cause to multiply or increase (obsolete).
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the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective]
waxing1297
multiplyinga1400
augmentive1483
breeding1552
crescent1568
growingc1587
enhancinga1592
creasing1592
teeming1597
increasing1600
auctive1634
echinga1644
multiplicating1661
gliscent1669
enlarging1694
augmenting1745
swelling1854
the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > [adjective]
bearingOE
genderinga1398
multiplyinga1400
fecundc1420
broodya1522
fruitful1526
breeding1552
procreant1588
procreative1598
increasing1600
broodious1602
prolifical1608
conceptiousa1616
plenteousa1616
conceptive1630
feracious1637
propagatory1647
prolific1650
proliferous1654
propagative1654
progenial1664
teemful1755
progenitive1769
breedy1824
proligerous1836
progenital1837
philoprogenitive1857
eugenesic1864
the world > matter > alchemy > alchemical processes > [adjective] > transmutation
multiplying1611
the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > tending to increase something
augmentativea1500
multiplicative1604
multiplying of1646
proliferative1952
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) 2348 (MED) More þen þe sterres of heuen Ne þen þe graueles in þe see, So multepliynge [v.r. vntelland] shulde þei be.
1611 Bible (King James) Wisd. iv. 3 The multiplying brood of the vngodly shall not thriue. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) v. iii. 103 Platus [sic] himselfe, That knowes the tinct and multiplying med'cine. View more context for this quotation
1646 H. Lawrence Of Communion & Warre with Angels 64 Such punishments..are multiplying of evill infinitely, if God prevent not.
1668 J. Child Brief Observ. Trade 14 Interest..which is of so prodigious a Multiplying nature, that it must of necessity make the Lenders monstrous rich.
1813 R. Owen New View of Society 20 The irresistible propensities which form a part of our nature, and which now produce the endless and ever multiplying evils with which humanity is afflicted.
1855 S. Wilberforce in R. G. Wilberforce Life S. Wilberforce (1881) II. vii. 287 Oh! our multiplying embarrassments from concessions and inconsistencies.
1871 A. C. Swinburne Eve of Revol. in Songs before Sunrise 63 Whose multiplying hands Wove the world's web with divers races fair And cast it waif-wise on the stream.
1940 C. Sherrington in B. Dixon From Creation to Chaos (1993) 222 This is what that little pin's-head bud of multiplying cells, the starting embryo, proceeds to do.
1991 Economist 21 Dec. 45/1 There are multiplying signs of what is fashionably called neo-prohibitionism.
2. Mathematics. Having the function of an arithmetical multiplier.
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the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > [adjective] > multiple > multiplying
multiplying1709
?c1425 Crafte Nombrynge in R. Steele Earliest Arithm. in Eng. (1922) 21 Numerus multiplicans, Anglice, þe nombur multipliyinge.
c1450 Art Nombryng in R. Steele Earliest Arithm. in Eng. (1922) 41 (MED) Euery part of the nombre multiplying is to be hade into euery part of the nombre to be multipliede.
a1690 S. Jeake Λογιστικηλογία (1696) 23 Multiply every figure of the Multiplicand by the multiplying digit.
1709 J. Ward Young Mathematician's Guide (1734) i. vi. 72 The Multiplying Fraction is less than an Unite or 1.
1951 M. V. Wilkes et al. Prepar. Programs for Electronic Digital Computer i. i. 4 This may always be done if suitable..powers of two are introduced as multiplying constants.
1965 I. H. Seeley Building Quantities Explained ii. 11 Dimensions paper... Column 1 is termed the ‘timesing column’ in which multiplying figures are entered when there is more than one of the particular item being measured.
2013 Internat. Jrnl. Environmental Sci. & Technol. 10 265/1 The level of dilution for the ADS test by each panel can be finally expressed as X values as follows: X = Z × 10n where Z is a multiplying factor (either 1 or 3) [etc].
3. Designating an instrument or device for increasing the extent or number of something, esp. the extent of movement (in quot. 1823, for increasing the strength of an effect); spec. designating a fishing reel geared so that the spool turns faster than the handle by a particular ratio; of or relating to such a mechanism.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > types of machine generally > [adjective] > other types
stout1702
multiplying1767
reciprocating1768
locomotive1800
centripetal1835
self-contained1839
uniplane1843
high-speed1844
powered1847
flexible1859
undergrounda1884
chip-proof1901
portable1913
batch1940
closed-loop1958
interactive1967
1767 J. Smeaton Rep. Late John Smeaton (1797) I. 256 d is a multiplying wheel and axle for working the bellows with ropes instead of a lever.
1781 in P. C. Moore Inventory Hartlebury Castle (1960) 87 A flesh fork, a Jack & multiplying wheel & a chain etc.
1787 T. Cavallo in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 78 14 Experiments made with those doubling or multiplying plates.
1823 Ann. Philos. New Ser. 5 437 The multiplying wire [in Schweigger's multiplier] is of plated copper.
1839 T. C. Hofland Brit. Angler's Man. (1841) i. 6 The multiplying reel was formerly much used, but, from its liability to be out of order [etc.].
1849 H. M. Noad Lect. Electr. (ed. 3) 396 Rapid horizontal motion is then given to the coil by means of a multiplying wheel.
1856 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports i. §621. 234/2 Multiplying-reels, in which, by the introduction of machinery, the barrel is made to travel several times to the single revolution of the handle.
1876 P. G. Tait Lect. Recent Adv. in Physical Sci. iv An arrangement..consisting of a driving wheel and multiplying gear, by which I can communicate an extremely great velocity of rotation to this copper disc.
1889 Nature 21 Nov. 71/2 A multiplying apparatus which determines..in one function, the product of a number by each figure of the multiplier.
1915 Science 16 July 80/1 By a multiplying device the total sum of the upward motions of the body are also recorded.
1960 C. Willock Angler's Encycl. 198/1 Star-drag, adjustable tension device often built into big sea multiplying reels.
1990 Compl. Angler's Guide Spring 8/3 Reels are also being changed. In particular, the multiplying patterns which are rapidly being superseded by modern fixed spool reels.
Compounds
multiplying eye n. now historical an eye which sees double or confusedly, esp. because of intoxication.
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1655 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa II. vii They return'd me word that they had discouer'd the Enemy, which could not be lesse than 15000 Horse. I told the Messenger that sure they had seene with multiplying Eyes.
1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd II. xxi. 252 Joseph was suffering from his old complaint, a multiplying eye, and was..hardly trustworthy as coachman and protector to a lady.
1877 W. Besant & J. Rice With Harp & Crown viii. 60 What time the placens uxor expects her husband to return with wavering step and multiplying eye.
1954 19th-cent. Fiction 9 207 Hard on its heels comes a rowdy scene with..Joseph pitying himself and declaring himself stricken with a multiplying eye. [Cf. quot. 1874.]
multiplying punch n. Computing (now historical) a punched-card machine for performing multiplication, often in conjunction with addition or subtraction.
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1934 Ann. Math. Statistics 5 160 The recent development of the Automatic Multiplying Punch is unquestionably the most important contribution to the mechanics of mathematical statistics since the invention of adding and multiplying machines.
1949 E. C. Berkeley Giant Brains iv. 47 The chief IBM punch-card machines are: the key punch, the verifier, the sorter, the interpreter, the reproducer, the collator, the multiplying punch, the calculating punch, and the tabulator.
1985 P. Ceruzzi in Man. Operation Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (Charles Babbage Inst. Reprint Series Hist. Computing Vol. VIII) Introd. p. xxii A decimal calculator may perform multiplication by two methods: by repeated addition and shifts or by looking up digit products in an internal table. The Mark I used an internal table, using an arrangement first developed by IBM a decade earlier for the 601 multiplying punch.
Derivatives
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the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [adverb]
manifoldlyeOE
mislicheeOE
sere-wise1340
in (also on, by) sundry wisea1393
in sundry waysa1393
manifolda1400
manifoldwise1440
multifarya1450
sunderly?a1450
multiplyingly1483
sundrilya1500
several1551
changeably1567
sundrywise1591
severally1605
variously1627
miscellaneously1639
multifariously1657
variedly1827
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. 346v They suffrid in many maners prouffitably constantly and multyplyengly.
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