# Multiply vs Times - What's the difference?

multiply | times |

## As verbs the difference between multiply and times

is that multiply is to increase the amount, degree or number of (something) while times is (time) or times can be (informal|arithmetic) to multiply.

## As nouns the difference between multiply and times

is that multiply is (computer science) an act or instance of multiplying while times is (time).

is in many or multiple ways.

## As a preposition times is

product of the previous number and the following number.

# multiply

## English

### Etymology 1

From (etyl) multiplier, from (etyl) . The noun presumably derives from the verb.

#### Verb

• To increase the amount, degree or number of (something).
• * Ames
• Impunity will multiply motives to disobedience.
• (arithmetic) To perform multiplication on (a number).
• To grow in number.
• To breed or propagate.
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• (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]:
• 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.
• * 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]:
• Of all the possible combinations of factors above, only $\left(2\cdot4\right)+\left(3\cdot5\right)=23$. Carefully arranging the factors, therefore, to ensure that 2 multiplies' 4 and 3 ' multiplies 5, we have
• *:: $6x^2+23x+20=\left(2x+5\right)\left(3x+4\right)$
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#### Noun

(multiplies)
• (computer science) An act or instance of multiplying.
• ### Etymology 2

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• In many or multiple ways.
• English heteronyms

# times

## English

### Noun

• English plurals
• The circumstances of a certain time.
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• A person's experiences or biography.
• #### Derived terms

* good times * keep up with the times * sign of the times * straitened times * times fixed charges * times-interest-earned ratio * Times

### Preposition

(English prepositions)
• Product of the previous number and the following number.
• Four times five is twenty.
One times one is one.

#### Derived terms

* times-or-divided-by * times sign * times table

• (time)
• ### Verb

• (informal, arithmetic) To multiply.
• * 1994 , Harvey Mellar, Learning with artificial worlds: computer-based modelling in the curriculum
• I've taken the calories and the amount of food . . . and it's 410 calories per portion timesed by 6 portions which (SIC) the answer was 2460 calories...
• * 1995 , Mathematical Association, The Australian mathematics teacher, Volumes 51-53
• A student as junior as Year 4 informed me that he made a forward estimate of cheeses in 100 trials by 'timesing both numbers by 10'...
• * 1998 , Psychology of mathematics education, Volume 2
• Alex: Yeah - if you're timesing that distance there by this height, it will disappear.

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