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Multiplication


MULTIPLICA'TION, noun [Latin multiplicatio.]

1. The act of multiplying or of increasing number; as the multiplication of the human species by natural generation.

2. In arithmetic, a rule or operation by which any given number may be increased according to any number of times proposed. Thus 10 multiplied by 5 is increased to 50.