verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
multiply one number by another
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What happens if you multiply a postive number by a negative number?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
by
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Now consider the associated tensors and: and multiply by .
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Nine months multiplied by that payment comes to $ 76, 644.
rapidly
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The natural warmth of the human body encourages microorganisms to multiply rapidly .
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They multiply rapidly if ignored, however, and form an unattractive brown film wherever they congregate.
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The churches are growing and multiplying rapidly .
then
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Then multiply this answer by a hundred, which gives you the percentage figure.
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So look at your friends, see what they are a little vain about and then multiply by a factor of ten.
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This then multiplies and can spread through the body often affecting vital organs.
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To take your pulse all you need to do is to count it for 10 seconds and then multiply by 6.
■ NOUN
cell
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The nucleus must be taken from cells that are multiplying .
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If the immune system is not strong enough, however, the faulty cells will multiply .
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The cells multiply and the bud grows out in a paddle-like form.
factor
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So look at your friends, see what they are a little vain about and then multiply by a factor of ten.
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The boiler costs are not multiplied by a derating factor to avoid overestimating the conversion savings associated with derating.
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Adding this in and multiplying by a factor of 2 produces the delay for the round trip Earth Venus-Earth:.
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After infection, malaria parasites multiply by a factor of eight every 24 hours.
number
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This figure is multiplied by a number of years' purchase, which is commonly known as the multiplier.
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To multiply several prime numbers into a larger product is easy; any elementary school kid can do it.
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She has wonderful parents who have already taught her to multiply lots of numbers .
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No time differences had to be established or subtracted from one another or multiplied by any number of degrees.
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That is an argument for having a range of effective analgesics, but hardly for continuing to multiply their numbers indefinitely.
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This rate is multiplied by the number of hours the lawyer worked on the case.
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For two colours on screen, multiply the number of squares wide by the number of squares high.
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But as the virus multiplies , the number of T-helper cells declines and there is increased impairment of the immune system.
numbers
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She has wonderful parents who have already taught her to multiply lots of numbers .
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To multiply several prime numbers into a larger product is easy; any elementary school kid can do it.
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That is an argument for having a range of effective analgesics, but hardly for continuing to multiply their numbers indefinitely.
times
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In so doing it multiplies many times over and produces alcohol.
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That fish has somehow multiplied many times over.
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A person bereft by permanent loss or separation feels this range of emotion multiplied many times .
■ VERB
add
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Cells can contain words, numbers or formulae which can be added , multiplied , etc.
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Natural numbers can be added or multiplied together to produce new natural numbers.
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They were adding , multiplying and dividing, mentally, on paper and with a calculator.
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She can not add or subtract or multiply or divide even the simplest numbers in her head.
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Risk factors for heart disease do not just add up, they multiply .
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It is an entertaining program helping children to add , subtract, multiply and divide quickly and accurately.
calculate
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Costs for each patient were then calculated by multiplying the mean cost per procedure by the number of procedures performed on them.
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This is calculated by multiplying the number of shares in issue by their market price.
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Other acid outputs were calculated by multiplying the acid output during the second 15 minutes of each infusion period by four.
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Acid output was calculated by multiplying the hydrogen ion concentration by the volume of the gastric aspirate.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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11 multiplied by 10 is 110.
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Computers have multiplied the possibilities open to the artist.
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Environmental laws have multiplied.
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If you multiply ten by seven you get seventy.
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Since they started borrowing money, their problems have multiplied.
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The germs multiply quickly in the heat, and can produce food poisoning.
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The insects multiply rapidly during hot, dry summers.
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The number of settlements multiplied enormously.
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To find the price in yen, you multiply by 86.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Associating democracy with fear certainly multiplies the ambiguities and increases the uncertainties.
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But the parasite had multiplied explosively in his blood.
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If the songbird population has thinned, the boats in the cove have multiplied.
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In particular multiplying the wavefunction by - I does not change the physics at all.
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Quite so: distance multiplied by force.
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The harpies from Paris running the road houses which must inevitably multiply will be a worse scourge than the mosquitoes.
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The likely total number of dies can then be multiplied by the average number of coins per die.