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1. The act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production
   - generation, propagation
    
2. A multiplicative increase
   "repeated copying leads to a multiplication of errors"; "this multiplication of cells is a natural correlate of growth"
    
3. An arithmetic operation that is the inverse of division; the product of two numbers is computed
   "the multiplication of four by three gives twelve"
   - times

Derived forms: multiplications

See also: multiply

Type of: arithmetic operation, breeding, facts of life, growth, increase, increment, procreation, reproduction

Encyclopedia: Multiplication