How to Use multiplicative in a Sentence

multiplicative

adjective
  • This is sort of the most important example of a multiplicative function.
    — Quanta Magazine, 20 July 2017
  • Look at both the number of ways to factor the first three perfect numbers, as well as the small number in each of those multiplicative examples.
    — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 24 June 2021
  • Even modest increases in a training staff can have a multiplicative increase in throughput for pilot training.
    — Ben Baldanza, Forbes, 24 June 2022
  • This is definitely an example of a multiplicative technology that will pull up the rest of the industry.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
  • There is nowhere to hide a weak gate in a multiplicative chain like this, which is why brands that fix each step systematically outperform brands that optimize case by case, every time.
    — Jason Barnard, Rolling Stone, 6 Apr. 2026
  • The dazzling array of new products means that innovation is multiplicative and not additive for economic growth.
    — Philip Cross, National Review, 30 Dec. 2020
  • The same can be done with exponential functions characterized by constant multiplicative change.
    — Patrick Honner, Quanta Magazine, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Since your brain is already wired to connect, leaning into that tendency offers multiplicative potential.
    — Kevin Kruse, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Worse, every extra dollar of tax revenue inflow has a multiplicative effect when it’s remembered that government programs only grow.
    — John Tamny, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Put more generally, the conjecture says that the additive and multiplicative properties of a set of numbers somehow force each other to behave in a certain way.
    — Quanta Magazine, 6 Feb. 2019
  • Moreover, the principles and processes tend to be interactive and multiplicative.
    — Steve Denning, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Such interventions work together in a synergistic way and the benefits are multiplicative.
    — John Drake, Forbes, 21 May 2021
  • One of Belichick’s great gifts is eking out small but multiplicative advantages by living on the limits (or, given the controversies the Patriots have been involved in, perhaps over them).
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2024
  • Within a broad family of algebraic structures, which elements have multiplicative inverses?
    — Quanta Magazine, 12 Apr. 2021
  • The principles are interactive and multiplicative.
    — Steve Denning, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • NASA]It’s hard to think of any modern human activity that has had more of a multiplicative impact on the imagination than space exploration.
    — Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Moreover, the distributions often appeared to be what’s called lognormal, which can happen, for example, when the numbers being plotted are the result of multiplicative processes rather than additive ones.
    — Quanta Magazine, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Despite the generational gap, the affinity between Aretha Franklin and Jennifer Hudson is multiplicative.
    — Rodney Ho, ajc, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Authors, having sponsored data, analytics and AI upskilling programs, have seen first-hand their multiplicative effect in cultural evolution.
    — Randy Bean, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Education has so many multiplicative impacts on a student’s life, ensuring that every single student gets a quality education is critical to community and long-term recovery.
    — oregonlive, 12 May 2020
  • Since that stimulus has multiplicative effects on businesses and total output, the AHCA slashes state outputs by amounts far greater than the amount of federal funds divested.
    — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 17 June 2017
  • February also saw the announcement that the unit conjecture is false, meaning that multiplicative inverses actually exist in more complicated structures than mathematicians thought.
    — Quanta Magazine, 23 Dec. 2021
  • To them, bank lending has multiplicative qualities whereby Bank A rents $100,000 from a saver, lends out $90,000 to a borrower who then banks the money at Bank B, only for Bank B to lend out $81,000, only for the borrower to bank the $81,000 at Bank C that lends out $72,900.
    — John Tamny, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025

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