MULTIPLICATIONS Synonyms: 40 Similar and Opposite Words

multiplications

noun

plural of multiplication

as in increases

the act or process of becoming greater in number there's been a steady multiplication in our attic of obsolete video equipment as new technologies come on the market

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Recent Examples of multiplications For reference, multiplying a pair of thousand-digit numbers involves a million single-digit multiplications using the grade-school method but fewer than 57,000 using Karatsuba’s algorithm. — Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 13 July 2026 The combined interactions of light fields naturally produce mathematical operations including tensor multiplications. — New Atlas, 10 Dec. 2025 The differences might be small, but recall that the operation is adding up many multiplications, so the noise gets magnified. — IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2025

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The government also promised 15,000 additional places in higher education, introduced across the next two years, and increases in student grants linked to inflation from the start of the next academic year.

— Thomas Adamson, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2026
Government bond investors want cuts to public spending, less borrowing and business-friendly measures aimed at boosting growth, such as reversing some of the payroll tax increases introduced under Reeves.

— Ian King, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2026

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Additional snow accumulations of 2 to 6 inches with 8 to 10 inches along the highest mountain peaks.

— CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 22 Oct. 2026
Some people experienced them as a purely optical means of aesthetic transport; others found in them tactile accumulations of crust, carnage, and debris.

— Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2026

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Eventually, an edict from the top came that existing attorneys should not anticipate additions to the court teams, according to one source.

— Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Oct. 2026
This offseason, the right additions could put them on a similar route.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 23 Oct. 2026

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