multiplying

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present participle of

to add a number to itself a particular number of times:

If you multiply seven by 15 you get 105.

When you multiply two odd numbers, is the answer always odd?

I remember learning how to multiply and divide.

to increase, or to increase something, very much in number:

Alzheimer's Disease affects more than 4 million Americans today, and the number is expected to multiply rapidly as the population ages.

Major publishers are multiplying the number of titles offered in digital form.

of living things, to increase by producing new young animals, bacteria, etc.:

18 birds multiplied to 100 in just three years.

In warm weather these germs multiply rapidly.