multiple
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- noun
- /ˈmʌltəpəl/
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múltiplo
- The number 30 is a multiple of 5 because it can be divided evenly by 5.
- integer multiples
- multiples of 32
- common multiple
If, if what if I is a multiple of three?
- If, if what if I is a multiple of three?
- Well, somebody might pay you for that business, a multiple known as the price to earnings ratio.
- That's it, a multiple of their earnings and their projected earnings.
- There's a reason why tuition has gone up, you know, a multitude of or a multiple of inflation.
- So saying it's an old people problem, they were dying as a multiple of their mortality rate.
Examples
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And what I want you to notice, is that when you compute P of N... for N congruent to four mod five... the answer is a multiple of five.
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It's some multiple, let me call that multiple X of a.
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This is a multiple of P, the prime number.
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So we also know that is definitely a multiple of three.
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So this is a multiple of seven, right?
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What if P was actually equal to some multiple of Q like this?
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Today, funds that are a multiple of 100 million dollars are commonplace.
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If you have 3 groups, you would use multiples of 3 for your blocks, and so on.
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The Aztec calendar was metric... based on multiples of 10.
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Prints are usually created in multiples, while watercolor paintings are one-of-a-kind.
Academic text (2015)
Compounds
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A long-term disease that damages the covering of nerves in the brain and spinal cord, causing weakness and vision problems
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Of questions that give several answer choices for you to pick the correct one
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A rare mental illness in which one person has two or more different identities that act separately
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A cancer of blood cells in the bone marrow that appears in several places
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A long-term disease of the nerves that causes patches of damage to their protective covering often causing numbness and weakness
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When two elements form different compounds, the masses that combine with the same mass are in small whole number ratios
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The smallest number that two or more numbers divide evenly into
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The smallest number that each of the given numbers goes into evenly
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A number that shows how well several things together predict one result
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A food that forms when many flowers grow together, like a pineapple or mulberry
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A condition where several single nerves in different body parts stop working
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Swelling of many nerves in the body that causes weakness and numbness
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A plow that turns over two or more rows of soil at the same time
Surface Forms
Etymology
Multiple as a math word uses the same multi- 'many' idea and is like the word multiply; a multiple is what you get when you take a number 'many times', which is why 12 is a multiple of 3.