Subsequent vs Multiple - What's the difference?
subsequent | multiple |
Following in time; coming or being after something else at any time, indefinitely.
Following in order of place; succeeding.
Having more than one element, part, component, or function, particularly many.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= (mathematics) A number that may be divided by another number with no remainder.
* 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 subsequent and multiple
is that subsequent is subsequent while multiple is multiple.subsequent
English
Adjective
(-)- Growth was dampened by a softening of the global economy in 2001, but picked up in the subsequent years due to strong growth in China.
Derived terms
* subsequentlymultiple
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
* (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)Antonyms
* (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.