multiplicatively
- adverb
- /ˌmʌltɪplɪˈkeɪtɪvli/
- Specialized
- When calculating compound interest, the accumulated amount grows multiplicatively with each compounding period, unlike simple interest which grows additively.
Examples
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The key difference between subtractive and additive systems is that in the former, the primary spectral components combine multiplicatively, not additively.
Academic text (1992) -
Costs of a left turn for oncoming traffic moving at a given speed (S) and probability of collision (Pcs) are also expressed multiplicatively (Pcs S).
Academic text (2001) -
The expected null model of resource consumption by a macrobiotic scavenger is based on detection due to carbon dioxide emission and the availability through time of the resource formed by multiplicatively combining the curve in (b) with (d). (f)
Academic text (2006) -
In chemical reactions, reactants combine multiplicatively, leading to a greater increase in product yield than if they combined additively.
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The factors that influence the growth rate of bacteria interact multiplicatively, resulting in exponential population increases under optimal conditions.
Surface Forms
Morphology
multiplicatively = multiplicative (transparent) = multiply + ive + ly
A standard adverb formed from the adjective 'multiplicative' (which itself is directly related to 'multiply'), so the meaning is predictably 'in a multiplicative way'.
Etymology
Multiplicatively comes from the word multiply, with multi- meaning 'many' and multiply meaning 'to make many' or 'increase by times'. So, to act multiplicatively is to change something 'by multiplying'—like in math when values get many times bigger, not just a little more by adding.
