Multiplied vs Divers - What's the difference?
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(multiply)
To increase the amount, degree or number of (something).
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(arithmetic) To perform multiplication on (a number).
To grow in number.
To breed or propagate.
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, title= (arithmetic) To perform multiplication.
(rare) To be a factor in a multiplication with (another factor).
* 1983 , Graham Flegg, Numbers , 2002 edition, ISBN 0486421651, page 154 [http://books.google.com/books?id=C0Wcb9c6c18C&pg=PA154&dq=multiplies]:
* 1993 , Edward T. Dowling, (w, Schaum's Outline) of Theory and Problems of Mathematical Methods for Business and Economics , ISBN 0070176744, page 14 [http://books.google.com/books?id=8PaQk7LodfoC&pg=PA14&dq=multiplies]:
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(computer science) An act or instance of multiplying.
, in the sense of various or assorted.
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Multiplied is a related term of divers.
As a verb multiplied
is (multiply).As an adjective divers is
various.As a noun divers is
monster.multiplied
English
Verb
(head)multiply
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) multiplier, from (etyl) . The noun presumably derives from the verb.Verb
- Impunity will multiply motives to disobedience.
Welcome to the plastisphere, passage=[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across.
- 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.
- Of all the possible combinations of factors above, only . Carefully arranging the factors, therefore, to ensure that 2 multiplies' 4 and 3 ' multiplies 5, we have
Synonyms
* (l)Noun
(multiplies)Etymology 2
.divers
English
Etymology 1
See (diver)Noun
(head)Etymology 2
See (diverse)Adjective
(en adjective)- And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatic, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.
- Shortly after this I had to go out of town. Divers sound sportsmen had invited me to pay visits to their country places, and it wasn't for several months that I settled down in the city again.
