<B>multiple, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>of, having, or involving many parts, elements, or relations; manifold. <BR> <I>Ex. Benjamin Franklin was a man of multiple interests.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Electricity.) <DD><B> a. </B>(of a circuit) having two or more conductors in parallel. <DD><B> b. </B>(of a group of terminals) giving access to a circuit at a number of points. <DD><B> 3. </B>(British.) of or belonging to a chain of stores or shops. <BR> <I>Ex. a multiple grocer.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a number which contains another number a certain number of times without a remainder. <BR> <I>Ex. 20 is a multiple of 4.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Electricity.) a group of terminals arranged so as to give access to a circuit or group of circuits at a number of points. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Especially British.) a multiple shop; chain store. <BR> <I>Ex. An individual store buyer is on a hopeless wicket in those sections where he has to meet competition from the multiples (Sunday Times).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>a mass-produced painting, sculpture, or other artistic work. <BR> <I>Ex. The artist who becomes interested in multiples takes the first step towards involving himself with the demands of technology(London Times).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>in multiple,</B> </I>(Electricity.) in parallel. <BR> <I>Ex. All the motors were connected in multiple and operated individually.</I> </DL>
<B>multiple alleles,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Genetics.) a group of three or more allelomorphic genes, only two of which can be present at one time in the body cells of a diploid organism. </DL>
<B>multiple-choice, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> containing two or more suggested answers from which the correct or best one must be chosen. <BR> <I>Ex. a multiple-choice test. In her two and a half years at Georgia, where even philosophy tests are usually made up of true-false and multiple-choice questions, Charlayne's grades fluctuated wildly (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
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<B>multiple cropping,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> growing two or more crops in one field in one year. </DL>
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<B>multiple factors,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Genetics.) combinations of two or more genes which act together to produce a trait, as size, yield, or skin pigmentation, or the variations in it. </DL>
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<B>multiple fruit,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a fruit composed of a cluster of ripened ovaries produced by several flowers, as the mulberry; collective fruit; compound fruit. </DL>
<B>Multiple Independently Targetable Reentry Vehicle,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a guided missile with multiple nuclear warheads to be aimed at several targets at a time; MIRV. </DL>
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<B>multiple myeloma,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a very painful cancer usually affecting a number of bones, originating in bone marrow, and causing lesions of the bone and of certain soft tissues such as the kidneys. </DL>
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<B>multiple neuritis,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> inflammation of several nerves at once. </DL>
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<B>multiple personality,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a psychological condition in which a person, from time to time, exhibits the characteristics or behavior of two or more dissimilar personalities. </DL>
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<B>multiple-response, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(Psychology.) involving a great variety of responses to a new stimulus or situation before an organized response pattern is evolved. <BR> <I>Ex. multiple-response learning.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Education.) containing a group of suggested answers from which two or more correct answers must be chosen. <BR> <I>Ex. a multiple-response test.</I> </DL>
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<B>multiple sclerosis,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a disorder of the nervous system, attacking the brain and the spinal cord, and characterized by the degeneration and scarring of patches of nerve tissue, followed by paralysis, muscle spasms, disorders of speech, and tremors of the hand. (Abbr:) MS (no periods). </DL>
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<B>multiple shop</B> or <B>store,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Especially British.) a chain store; multiple. </DL>
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<B>multiple star,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a group of three or more stars comprising one gravitational system, and usually appearing to the naked eye as a single star. </DL>
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<B>multiplet, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(Physics.) two or more closely associated lines in a spectrum, exhibiting characteristic differences, as of frequency. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Nuclear Physics.) two or more elementary particles exhibiting identical or similar characteristics. <BR> <I>Ex. The eightfold way puts nuclear particles into groups, or multiplets, and families of groups, or supermultiplets (Science News Letter).</I> </DL>
<B>multiple voting,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> voting in more than one place at the same election. This was legally possible in Great Britain before 1918. </DL>
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<B>multiplex, </B>adjective, verb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>manifold; multiple. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Telegraphy, Telephony.) of or designating a system for sending two or more messages in each direction over the same wire or circuit at the same time. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Radio, Television.) of or designating the transmission of two or more signals on one carrier wave at the same time. <BR> <I>Ex. Center channel output and output for multiplex adaptor assure ... gratifying results (Wall Street Journal).</I> <DD><I>v.t., v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>(Telegraphy, Telephony.) to send (two or more messages) over the same wire at the same time. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Radio, Television.) to send (two or more signals) on one carrier wave at the same time. <BR> <I>Ex. Multiplex your modulation into the intermediate frequency (New York Times).</I> <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a multiplex system or signal. <DD><B> 2. </B>Also, <B>multiplex theater.</B> a motion-picture theater with smaller theaters in it, each showing a different motion picture at the same time. noun <B>multiplexer.</B> adv. <B>multiplexly.</B> </DL>
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<B>multipliable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can be or will be multiplied, especially as the consequence of some action. </DL>
<B>multiplicand, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a number or quantity to be multiplied by another. <BR> <I>Ex. In 5 times 497, the multiplicand is 497.</I> </DL>
<B>multiplication, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act or process of multiplying. <BR> <I>Ex. I fairly cowered down ... under this multiplication of hardships (Herman Melville).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the condition of being multiplied. <BR> <I>Ex. One of the peculiarities which distinguish the present age is the multiplication of books (Samuel Johnson).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>the operation of multiplying one number or quantity by another; the operation of finding a product by adding a number or quantity (the multiplicand) as many times as there are units in another (the multiplier), or of calculating this addition briefly. </DL>
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<B>multiplicational, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with multiplication. </DL>
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<B>multiplication fact,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a basic statement in multiplication, such as 6 X 3 = 18. </DL>
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<B>multiplication sign,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> either the symbol X or a centered dot, used to indicate the operation of multiplying. </DL>
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<B>multiplication table,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a table that lists the products of all the simple digits, from 1 times 1 to 12 times 12. </DL>
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<B>multiplicative, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> tending to multiply or increase; able to multiply. </DL>
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<B>multiplicative inverse,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Mathematics.) the reciprocal of a given number. (Example:) 2/3 is the multiplicative inverse of 3/2. </DL>
<B>multiplicity, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ties.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>manifold variety; diversity. <BR> <I>Ex. the multiplicity of nature.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a great many; great number. <BR> <I>Ex. a multiplicity of gifts, a multiplicity of interests.</I> </DL>
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<B>multiplier, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a number by which another number is to be multiplied. <BR> <I>Ex. In 5 times 83, the multiplier is 5.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a person or thing that multiplies. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Physics.) an instrument or device used for intensifying by repetition the intensity of a force, current, or other agent. </DL>
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<B>multiplier onion,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a variety of the common onion that is raised from a bulb instead of a seed or a set and is used chiefly in salads. </DL>
