Multiplier vs Multiplied - What's the difference?
multiplier | multiplied |
(arithmetic) A number by which another (the multiplicand) is to be multiplied.
(grammar) An adjective indicating the number of times something is to be multiplied.
(economics) A ratio used to estimate total economic effect for a variety of economic activities.
(physics) Any of several devices used to enhance a signal
# (physics, obsolete) a coil; when in 1820 invented the electric coil, increasing the electro-magnetic field from a single wire, this invention was called a multiplier .
A multiplier onion.
* 1995 , Marian Coonse, Onions, Leeks and Garlic: A Handbook for Gardeners (page 52)
(multiply)
To increase the amount, degree or number of (something).
* Ames
(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.
As a noun multiplier
is a number by which another (the multiplicand) is to be multiplied.As a verb multiplied is
past tense of multiply.multiplier
English
(wikipedia multiplier)Noun
(en noun)- In the expression'' 5 × 7, ''the "5" is a multiplier .
- The score multiplier increases each time you complete a level of the video game.
- English multipliers include "double" and "triple".
- Shallots are the most prolific of all the multipliers , and easier to grow than onions.
See also
* addition, summation: (augend) + (addend) = (summand) + (summand) = (sum, total) * subtraction: (minuend) ? (subtrahend) = (difference) * multiplication: (multiplier) × (multiplicand) = (factor) × (factor) = (product) * division: (dividend) ÷ (divisor) = (quotient), remainder left over if divisor does not divide dividend * mechanical torque multiplier * power multiplier (outlet) English agent nouns ----multiplied
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Verb
(head)multiply
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) multiplier, from (etyl) . The noun presumably derives from the verb.Verb
- Impunity will multiply motives to disobedience.
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- 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