Perplexing vs Multiple - What's the difference?
perplexing | multiple | Related terms |
Having more than one element, part, component, or function, particularly many.
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* 14, 21 and 70 are multiples of 7
(finance) Price-earnings ratio.
One of a set of the same thing; a duplicate.
A single individual who has multiple personalities.
* 2010 , Ann M. Garvey, Ann's Multiple World of Personality: Regular No Cream, No Sugar
* 2000 , Henk Driessen, ?Ton Otto, Perplexities of identification (page 115)
As adjectives the difference between perplexing and multiple
is that perplexing is confusing or puzzling while multiple is having more than one element, part, component, or function, particularly many.As a verb perplexing
is present participle of lang=en.As a noun multiple is
a number that may be divided by another number with no remainder.multiple
English
(wikipedia multiple)Adjective
(en adjective)Catherine Clabby
Focus on Everything, passage=Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.
Synonyms
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* (many) (l) (rare)Derived terms
* Law of multiple proportion (Law of Dalton) * multiple algebra * multiple conjugation * multiple exposure * multiple fruits * multiple orgasm * multiple starNoun
(en noun)- I had seen its first show when it was a freebie, but I thought it made multiples in general look silly – no one changes clothes THAT much!
- Non-abused multiples have no need of doctors, and they have carved out a foothold of their own from where they speak confidently about their utopian vision of a multiple world.
