Origin: Latin suffix -tion
Multiplication has 4 different meanings across 1 category:
the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production
"The invasive species has reached a population density where its rapid multiplication is threatening to overwhelm the local ecosystem."
a multiplicative increase
"repeated copying leads to a multiplication of errors"
"this multiplication of cells is a natural correlate of growth"
an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of division; the product of two numbers is computed
"the multiplication of four by three gives twelve"
"four times three equals twelve"
The process of computing the sum of a number with itself a specified number of times, or any other analogous binary operation that combines other mathematical objects.
This word comes from the Middle French term multiplicacion, which was derived from Latin. It originally combined the root meaning "to multiply" with a suffix indicating an action or process.