MULTIPLICATION

• (noun) the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production

  synonyms : generation , propagation

• (noun) an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of division; the product of two numbers is computed

  "the multiplication of four by three gives twelve", "four times three equals twelve"

  synonyms : times

• (noun) a multiplicative increase

  "repeated copying leads to a multiplication of errors", "this multiplication of cells is a natural correlate of growth"

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