multiplying
Making many more
Multiplying is increasing in number or amount, often rapidly or repeatedly.
Bacteria multiply by dividing.
Rabbits multiply prodigiously.
Problems multiply when ignored.
In arithmetic, multiplying is the operation of combining quantities: What do you get when you multiply six by seven?
The word suggests growth through repetition or reproduction.
Creating copies or offspring
- breedingReproductive cultivation of organisms
- propagatingSpreading or transmitting onward
- spawningReleasing eggs to reproduce
- buddingDeveloping from an outgrowth
dividing · mitosis · fission · replicating · proliferating · germinating · cloning · regenerating
Increasing by degrees
- compoundingElements merging progressively
- accumulatingGathering in increasing quantity
- snowballingIncreasing by rapid accumulation
- amplifyingIncreasing strength or intensity
magnifying · intensifying · accelerating · proliferating · burgeoning · mounting · surging · mushrooming
Occurrences or multiplications
- productManufactured item for sale
- factorContributor to result
- equationMathematical equality assertion
- calculatorElectronic computation device
computation · double · triple · quadruple · square · cube · exponent · power
Growing in scope
- extendingIncreasing in reach
- dispersingSpreading widely apart
- disseminatingSpreading information broadly
- scatteringDistribution in many directions
branching · radiating · diffusing · permeating · metastasizing · contagion · viral · outbreak
reproducing
Creating copies or offspring
- breedingReproductive cultivation of organisms
- propagatingSpreading or transmitting onward
- spawningReleasing eggs to reproduce
budding · dividing · mitosis · fission · replicating · proliferating · germinating · cloning · regenerating · offspring
escalating
Increasing by degrees
- compoundingElements merging progressively
- accumulatingGathering in increasing quantity
- snowballingIncreasing by rapid accumulation
amplifying · magnifying · intensifying · accelerating · proliferating · burgeoning · mounting · surging · mushrooming · ballooning
times
Occurrences or multiplications
calculator · computation · double · triple · quadruple · square · cube · exponent · power · coefficient
expanding
Growing in scope
- extendingIncreasing in reach
- dispersingSpreading widely apart
- disseminatingSpreading information broadly
scattering · branching · radiating · diffusing · permeating · metastasizing · contagion · viral · outbreak · epidemic
- basic mathsubtraction, dividing, adding, subtracting, sum
- growthgrowth, grow, growing, growth rate, increase
- math operationsaddition, adding, subtraction, subtracting, division
- runaway effectschain reaction, domino effect, snowball effect, runaway effect, feedback loop
- populatingsettling, colonizing, inhabiting, occupying, filling
- cryptography termsencoding, decoding, encrypting, decrypting, cracking
multiplyingdividing
Separating into parts
division · subtracting · subtraction · halving · factoring
multiplyingdecreasing
Becoming smaller or fewer
diminishing · reducing · lessening · shrinking · declining
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