Multitude vs Multiplicity - What's the difference?
multitude | multiplicity |
A great amount or number, often of people; myriad; profusion; abundance.
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The mass of ordinary people; the populous or the masses
* Pilate, wishing to please the multitude , released Barabbas to them.
the state of being made of multiple diverse elements
(mathematics) the number of values for which a given condition holds
a large indeterminate number
(software engineering, UML) The number of instances that can occur on a given end of a relationship, including 0..1, 1, 0..* or *, and 1..*.
As nouns the difference between multitude and multiplicity
is that multitude is a great amount or number, often of people; myriad; profusion; abundance while multiplicity is the state of being made of multiple diverse elements.multitude
English
(wikipedia multitude)Noun
(en noun)- A torrential rain poured down from the floodgates of the angry heavens upon the bared heads of the assembled multitude which numbered at the lowest computation five hundred thousand persons.