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0 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.
- 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.
- 18 birds multiplied to 100 in just three years.
- In warm weather these germs multiply rapidly.
1 to add a number to itself a particular number of times:
- [ T ] If you multiply 7 by 15 you get 105.
2 to increase greatly in number:
- [ I ] The viruses multiply within the body.
3 to increase a lot in number or to make something do this:
- Lawsuits against big drugs companies have multiplied in recent years.
- According to Peruvian authorities, chemical fertilizers are multiplying coca leaf production by up to 1,000% per hectare.
4 if you multiply a number, you add another number to it a particular number of times:
- multiply sth by 6/50/120, etc. Multiply your income by 3 to get a rough idea of what size of mortgage you can apply for.
- be multiplied by 6/50/120, etc. The total figure must be multiplied by 75% to produce the amount paid out to investors.
- They learn how to add, subtract, divide, and multiply.

In many cases parasites are incapable of surviving and multiplying in the absence of a host organism.
Such examples from the linguistic literature could be multiplied, but a survey of different types of incoherence may only increase the confusion.
The survival for the first year was estimated by multiplying the matrix detailing the monthly probabilities by itself between 1 and 12 times.
It follows from (1.5) that any components of the motion which are doubly periodic, multiply periodic, or chaotic, are precisely zero, and not just small.
For simplicity, this value was not multiplied by 10 as recommended by the manufacturer.
Unless one demonstration is more concise, elegant, or general than another, there is no reason to multiply proofs showing one and the same conclusion.
The free electron density was calculated multiplying the atomic density of the element for its electron valence.
The rice dressing was then kept at warm, outdoor temperatures for many hours, which likely allowed bacteria to further multiply before being served.