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Multiply

Mŭl'ti-plȳ, v. t.

verbtransitive

(54), v. t. [imp. & p. p. MULTIPLIED; p. pr. & vb. n. MULTIPLYING.] [Fr. multiplier, Pr. multiplicar, multiplicer, Sp. multiplicar, It. multiplicare, moltiplicare, from Lat. multiplex, q. v.]

Sense 1. To increase in number; to make more numerous; to add quantity to.

Impunity will multiply motives to disobedience. Ames.

Sense 2. (Math.) To repeat or add to itself any given number or quantity as many times as there are units in another given number; thus, 7 multiplied by 8 produces the number 56.

Mŭl'ti-plȳ, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. 1. To make greater in number or extent; to become numerous. “When men began to multiply on the face of the earth.” Gen. vi. 1.

Sense 2. To increase in extent and influence.

The word of God grew and multiplied. Acts xii. 24.

Multiplying glass, or lens. See LENS.