英语词汇“multiply”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

WORD ORIGINmultiply

Origin:

1100-1200 Old French multiplier, from Latin multiplicare, from multiplex; ➔ MULTIPLEX

VERB TABLE

multiply

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	multiply
	he, she, it	multiplies
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	multiplied
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have multiplied
	he, she, it	has multiplied
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had multiplied
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will multiply
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have multiplied

Continuous Form
Present	I	am multiplying
	he, she, it	is multiplying
	you, we, they	are multiplying
Past	I, he, she, it	was multiplying
	you, we, they	were multiplying
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been multiplying
	he, she, it	has been multiplying
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been multiplying
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be multiplying
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been multiplying

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES

11 multiplied by 10 is 110.
Computers have multiplied the possibilities open to the artist.
Environmental laws have multiplied.
If you multiply ten by seven you get seventy.
Since they started borrowing money, their problems have multiplied.
The germs multiply quickly in the heat, and can produce food poisoning.
The insects multiply rapidly during hot, dry summers.
The number of settlements multiplied enormously.
To find the price in yen, you multiply by 86.

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

Associating democracy with fear certainly multiplies the ambiguities and increases the uncertainties.
But the parasite had multiplied explosively in his blood.
If the songbird population has thinned, the boats in the cove have multiplied.
In particular multiplying the wavefunction by - I does not change the physics at all.
Quite so: distance multiplied by force.
The harpies from Paris running the road houses which must inevitably multiply will be a worse scourge than the mosquitoes.
The likely total number of dies can then be multiplied by the average number of coins per die.

THESAURUSdifferent ways of calculating► add

to put two or more numbers together to find the total: · If you add 7 and 5, you get 12.

► subtract/take away

to reduce one number by another number. take something away sounds more informal than subtract: · If you subtract 12 from 15, you get 3.

► multiply

to add a number to itself a particular number of times: · 4 multiplied by 10 is 40.

► divide

to calculate how many times one number contains another number: · 10 divided by 2 equals 5.

Longman Language Activatorto multiply one number by another► multiply

to add a number to itself a particular number of times: multiply something by something: · If you multiply ten by seven you get seventy.multiply by: · To find the price in yen, you multiply by 86.multiplied by: · 11 multiplied by 10 is 110.

► times

spoken use times between numbers or amounts to show that you are multiplying one figure by another: · Five times six equals thirty.· What is eight times twelve?

to increase a lot► multiply

to increase greatly in number: · Since they started borrowing money, their problems have multiplied.· The number of settlements multiplied enormously.· The insects multiply rapidly during hot, dry summers.

► double

to become twice as much or twice as many: · Welfare spending will nearly double by the year 2002.double to: · The number of female bank managers doubled from 104 to 208.double in size/value: · In those thirty years, San Francisco doubled in size.

► triple

also treble British to become three times as much or three times as many: · The number of senior citizens living in poverty has trebled in the last three years. · The party's majority in Congress tripled as a result of the election.triple in size/value: · The shares have trebled in value since trading resumed on Wednesday.

► quadruple

to become four times as much or four times as many: · In ten years, homicide rates tripled and suicide rates quadrupled.quadruple to: · By the end of 1973, the price of oil had quadrupled to $11.65 a gallon.

► proliferate

formal if something proliferates , it increases very quickly, and becomes more common: · The HIV virus is able to proliferate at an astonishing rate.· Child pornography is proliferating due to the increased use of computer chat rooms.

► snowball

to increase in number, at first slowly and then faster and faster: · Unemployment snowballed at the beginning of the 1980s.· Things hadn't exactly been going our way, but after the first defeat, everything sort of snowballed.

WORD SETS► Maths

abacus, nounalgebra, nounangle, nounarc, nounarea, nounarithmetic, nounarithmetic, adjectivearithmetic progression, nounaxis, nounbar chart, nounbar graph, nounbase, nounbinomial, nounbisect, verbBoolean, adjectiveC, nouncalculator, nouncalculus, nouncanonical, adjectivechord, nouncipher, nouncircumference, nouncircumscribe, verbcompass, nouncomplementary, adjectivecomputation, nouncompute, verbconcentric, adjectivecone, nouncongruent, adjectiveconical, adjectiveconstant, nouncontain, verbcoordinate, nouncoordinate, adjectivecos, cosine, nouncube, nouncubic, adjectivecurvature, nouncurve, nouncut, verbdeci-, prefixdeviation, noundiagonal, adjectivediameter, noundifferential calculus, noundigit, noundimension, noundomain, nouneccentric, adjectiveellipse, nounelliptical, adjectiveequal, adjectiveequal, verbequals sign, nounequation, nounequilateral triangle, nounexponential, adjectiveexpress, verbexpression, nounface, nounfigure, nounflow chart, nounformula, nounfraction, nounfractional, adjectivefunction, noungeometric, adjectivegeometry, noungraph, noungraphically, adverbgraph paper, noungrid, nounHCF, helix, nounheptagon, nounhexagon, nounhistogram, nounhypotenuse, nounimperial, adjectiveimproper fraction, nouninfinity, nouninformation theory, nouninnumerate, adjectiveinto, prepositioninverse, adjectiveisosceles triangle, nounline graph, log, nounlogarithm, nounlong division, nounlozenge, nounmath, nounmathematical, adjectivemathematician, nounmathematics, nounmatrix, nounmean, adjectivemedian, nounmedian, adjectivemetric, adjectiveminus, prepositionminus, nounminus, adjectiveminus sign, nounminute, nounmultiplication, nounmultiplication sign, nounmultiplication table, nounmultiply, verbN, nounnumber, nounnumerate, adjectivenumeration, nounoblong, adjectiveobtuse angle, nounoctagon, nounoval, nounparabola, nounparallel, adjectiveparallelogram, nounpentagon, nounpercentage, nounperimeter, nounperpendicular, nounpi, nounpictogram, nounpie chart, nounplane, nounplane geometry, nounplus, prepositionplus, nounplus, adjectiveplus sign, nounpolygon, nounpolyhedron, nounpower, nounprism, nounprobability, nounproof, nounproportion, nounproposition, nounprotractor, nounquadrangle, nounquadrant, nounquadratic equation, nounquadri-, prefixquadrilateral, nounradius, nounratio, nounrectangle, nounrectilinear, adjectiverecur, verbrhombus, nounright angle, nounright-angled triangle, nounroot, nounruler, nounscale, nounscalene triangle, nounscatter diagram, section, nounsegment, nounsemicircle, nounset square, nounsine, nounslide rule, nounsolid, adjectivesolid, nounsolution, nounsolve, verbsphere, nounsquare, adjectivesquare, nounsquare, verbsquare, adverbsquarely, adverbsquare root, nounsubset, nounsubtract, verbsubtraction, nounsum, nounsurface area, nounsymmetrical, adjectivesymmetry, nountangent, nounterm, nountheorem, nounthreefold, adjectivetimes, prepositiontrapezium, nountriangle, nountrigonometry, nountwo-dimensional, adjectivevalue, nounvariable, nounvector, nounVenn diagram, nounvertex, nounvertical, adjectivevolume, nounwork, verbX, nounx-axis, nouny-axis, noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► multiply one number by another

· What happens if you multiply a positive number by a negative number?

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► by

· Now consider the associated tensors and: and multiply by.· Nine months multiplied by that payment comes to $ 76, 644.

► rapidly

· The natural warmth of the human body encourages microorganisms to multiply rapidly.· They multiply rapidly if ignored, however, and form an unattractive brown film wherever they congregate.· The churches are growing and multiplying rapidly.

► then

· Then multiply this answer by a hundred, which gives you the percentage figure.· So look at your friends, see what they are a little vain about and then multiply by a factor of ten.· This then multiplies and can spread through the body often affecting vital organs.· To take your pulse all you need to do is to count it for 10 seconds and then multiply by 6.

NOUN► cell

· The nucleus must be taken from cells that are multiplying.· If the immune system is not strong enough, however, the faulty cells will multiply.· The cells multiply and the bud grows out in a paddle-like form.

► factor

· So look at your friends, see what they are a little vain about and then multiply by a factor of ten.· The boiler costs are not multiplied by a derating factor to avoid overestimating the conversion savings associated with derating.· Adding this in and multiplying by a factor of 2 produces the delay for the round trip Earth Venus-Earth:.· After infection, malaria parasites multiply by a factor of eight every 24 hours.

► number

· This figure is multiplied by a number of years' purchase, which is commonly known as the multiplier.· To multiply several prime numbers into a larger product is easy; any elementary school kid can do it.· She has wonderful parents who have already taught her to multiply lots of numbers.· No time differences had to be established or subtracted from one another or multiplied by any number of degrees.· That is an argument for having a range of effective analgesics, but hardly for continuing to multiply their numbers indefinitely.· This rate is multiplied by the number of hours the lawyer worked on the case.· For two colours on screen, multiply the number of squares wide by the number of squares high.· But as the virus multiplies, the number of T-helper cells declines and there is increased impairment of the immune system.

► numbers

· She has wonderful parents who have already taught her to multiply lots of numbers.· To multiply several prime numbers into a larger product is easy; any elementary school kid can do it.· That is an argument for having a range of effective analgesics, but hardly for continuing to multiply their numbers indefinitely.

► times

· In so doing it multiplies many times over and produces alcohol.· That fish has somehow multiplied many times over.· A person bereft by permanent loss or separation feels this range of emotion multiplied many times.

VERB► add

· Cells can contain words, numbers or formulae which can be added, multiplied, etc.· Natural numbers can be added or multiplied together to produce new natural numbers.· They were adding, multiplying and dividing, mentally, on paper and with a calculator.· She can not add or subtract or multiply or divide even the simplest numbers in her head.· Risk factors for heart disease do not just add up, they multiply.· It is an entertaining program helping children to add, subtract, multiply and divide quickly and accurately.

► calculate

· Costs for each patient were then calculated by multiplying the mean cost per procedure by the number of procedures performed on them.· This is calculated by multiplying the number of shares in issue by their market price.· Other acid outputs were calculated by multiplying the acid output during the second 15 minutes of each infusion period by four.· Acid output was calculated by multiplying the hydrogen ion concentration by the volume of the gastric aspirate.