Multiply vs Times - What's the difference?
multiply | times |
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.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, 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.
English plurals
The circumstances of a certain time.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=52, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= A person's experiences or biography.
Product of the previous number and the following number.
(time)
(informal, arithmetic) To multiply.
* 1994 , Harvey Mellar, Learning with artificial worlds: computer-based modelling in the curriculum
* 1995 , Mathematical Association, The Australian mathematics teacher, Volumes 51-53
* 1998 , Psychology of mathematics education, Volume 2
As verbs the difference between multiply and times
is that multiply is to increase the amount, degree or number of (something) while times is third-person singular of time.As nouns the difference between multiply and times
is that multiply is an act or instance of multiplying while times is plural of lang=enCategory:English plurals.As an adverb multiply
is in many or multiple ways.As a preposition times is
product of the previous number and the following number.As a proper noun Times is
a common name (often in combination) for a newspaper or periodical, especially The Times (published in the United Kingdom), but also The New York Times, The Times of India, Radio Times, etc.multiply
English
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
Synonyms
* (l)Noun
(multiplies)Etymology 2
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English
Noun
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Derived terms
* good times * keep up with the times * sign of the times * straitened times * times fixed charges * times-interest-earned ratio * TimesPreposition
(English prepositions)- Four times five is twenty.
- One times one is one.
Derived terms
* times-or-divided-by * times sign * times tableVerb
(head)Verb
- 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...
- 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'...
- Alex: Yeah - if you're timesing that distance there by this height, it will disappear.