multiply

Meanings

Verb

• To increase the amount, degree or number of (something).
• To perform multiplication on (a number).
• To grow in number.
• To breed or propagate.
• To perform multiplication.
• To be a factor in a multiplication with (another factor).

Noun

• An act or instance of multiplying.

Adverb

• In many or multiple ways.

Origin

• From Old French multiplier, from Latin multiplicō, from multi + plicō.
• The noun presumably derives from the verb.
• multiple + -ly.