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Multiple vs Labyrinthine - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between multiple and labyrinthine

is that multiple is having more than one element, part, component, or function, particularly many while labyrinthine is physically resembling a labyrinth; with the qualities of a maze.

As a noun multiple

is a number that may be divided by another number with no remainder.

multiple

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having more than one element, part, component, or function, particularly many.
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  • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= Focus on Everything , passage=Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.

    Synonyms

    * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)

    Antonyms

    * (many) (l) (rare)

    Derived terms

    * Law of multiple proportion (Law of Dalton) * multiple algebra * multiple conjugation * multiple exposure * multiple fruits * multiple orgasm * multiple star

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (mathematics) A number that may be divided by another number with no remainder.
  • * 14, 21 and 70 are multiples of 7
  • (finance) Price-earnings ratio.
  • One of a set of the same thing; a duplicate.
  • A single individual who has multiple personalities.
  • * 2010 , Ann M. Garvey, Ann's Multiple World of Personality: Regular No Cream, No Sugar
  • I had seen its first show when it was a freebie, but I thought it made multiples in general look silly – no one changes clothes THAT much!
  • * 2000 , Henk Driessen, ?Ton Otto, Perplexities of identification (page 115)
  • Non-abused multiples have no need of doctors, and they have carved out a foothold of their own from where they speak confidently about their utopian vision of a multiple world.

    Derived terms

    * common multiple * least common multiple

    labyrinthine

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Physically resembling a labyrinth; with the qualities of a maze.
  • * 1996 , Steen L. Jensen, H. Gregerson. M. H. Shokouh-Amin, F. G. Moody, (eds.), Essentials of Experimental Surgery: Gastroenterology , page 27/4
  • In the pyloric canal, muscular ridges are more fixed than elsewhere and produce quite a labyrinthine surface.
  • * 2011 , Lincoln Child, Deep Storm , page 185
  • Crane trotted along the labyrinthine corridors of deck 3, accompanied by a young marine with close-cropped blond hair.
  • Twisting, convoluted, baffling, confusing, perplexing.
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  • * 2000 , Joseph J. Ellis, Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation , page 51
  • Any attempt to answer that question would carry us into the labyrinthine corridors of Jefferson's famously elusive mind.
  • * 2005 , Michael W. Riley, "Plato's Cratylus: Argument, form, and structure", page 103
  • By coupling "essence" with "name" within a series of contraposed pairs of names, Socrates indicates the point to which he thinks his labyrinthine argument has led so far in the Cratylus .

    Synonyms

    * (resembling a labyrinth) labyrinthal, labyrinthial, labyrinthian, labyrinthic, labyrinthical, labyrinthiform * baffling, confusing, convoluted