English noun: multiplication
|1.||multiplication (act) the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production|
|Broader (hypernym)||breeding, facts of life, procreation, reproduction|
|Narrower (hyponym)||biogenesis, biogeny|
|2.||multiplication (process) a multiplicative increase|
|Samples||Repeated copying leads to a multiplication of errors.|
This multiplication of cells is a natural correlate of growth.
|Broader (hypernym)||growth, increase, increment|
|Narrower (hyponym)||doubling, quadrupling, quintupling, tripling|
|3.||multiplication (act) an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of division; the product of two numbers is computed|
|Samples||The multiplication of four by three gives twelve.|
Four times three equals twelve.
|Broader (hypernym)||arithmetic operation|