multiplying
present participle of multiply
multiplying (plural multiplyings)
An act of multiplication.
Source: Wiktionary
Mul"ti*ply, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Multiplied; p. pr. & vb. n. Multiplying.] Etym: [F. multiplier, L. multiplicare, fr. multiplex manifold. See Multitude, Complex.]
1. To increase in number; to make more numerous; to add quantity to. Impunity will multiply motives to disobedience. Ames.
2. (Math.)
Definition: To add (any given number or quantity) to itself a certain number of times; to find the product of by multiplication; thus 7 multiplied by 8 produces the number 56; to multiply two numbers. See the Note under Multiplication.
3. To increase (the amount of gold or silver) by the arts of alchemy. [Obs.] Multiplying gear (Mach.), gear for increasing speed.
– Multiplying lens. (Opt.) See under Lens.
Mul"ti*ply, v. i.
1. To become greater in number; to become numerous. When men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them. Gen. vi. 1.
2. To increase in extent and influence; to spread. The word of God grew and multiplied. Acts xii. 24.
3. To increase amount of gold or silver by the arts of alchemy. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
2 October 2024
(verb) allow to go out of sight or mind; “The detective lost the man he was shadowing after he had to stop at a red light”; “lose the crowds by climbing a mountain”; “the lost tribe”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
