multiply

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
中文释义
发音 mŭlʹtĭ-plī

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An act or instance of multiplying.
    — The extended instruction set may double the speed again if a lot of multiplies and divides are done.
动词 v.
  1. To increase the amount, degree or number of (something). transitive
    — The motives to refuse obedience to government are many and strong ; impunity will multiply and enforce them
  2. To perform multiplication on (a number). transitive
    — when you multiply 3 by 7, you get 21; he multiplied several numbers
  3. To grow in number. intransitive
  4. To breed or propagate. intransitive
    — [The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across.[…]Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, and that in several cases these bacteria were dividing and thus, by the perverse arithmetic of biological terminology, multiplying.
  5. To perform multiplication. intransitive
    — He had been multiplying, but it occurred to him he needed to resolve the exponents, first.
  6. To be a factor in a multiplication with (another factor). rare,transitive
    — This follows a similar process, counters having to be removed and replaced at each stage of the remaining part of the calculation except the final one, where 2 multiplies 3 to give 6.
形容词 adj.
  1. Having more than one ply or layer; multilayered. not-comparable
    — 2,751,151. MULTIPLY PAPER SACKS. […] A multiply paper bag […] the plies of the side flaps being stepped longitudinally of the bag […]
副词 adv.
  1. In many or multiple ways. not-comparable

词形变化

multiplies present,singular,third-person multiplying participle,present multiplied participle,past multiplied past multiplies plural

词汇关系

近义词
manifold
衍生词
cross-multiply demultiply go forth and multiply multiplee multipliable multiplicand multiplication multiplicatory multiplier multiplying glass multiplying lens overmultiply postmultiply premultiply remultiplication remultiply unmultiplied unmultiply

词源

词源 1
From Old French multiplier, from Latin multiplicō, from multi (“many”) + plicō (“to fold”).
The noun presumably derives from the verb.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English multiple
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English multiply
From multiple + -ly.
词源 3
multi- + ply
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