multiplication
/,məltəplə'keɪʃən/
noun
14 letters5 syllables20 points in Scrabble®27 points in WWF®
DEFINITIONS3
NOUN
1
The act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production.
2
An arithmetic operation that is the inverse of division; the product of two numbers is computed.
“the multiplication of four by three gives twelve”
3
A multiplicative increase.
“repeated copying leads to a multiplication of errors”
“this multiplication of cells is a natural correlate of growth”
WORD FORMS
Related formmultiply
GAME SCORES
Scrabble®20 points
Words With Friends®27 points
Double word40 points
Triple word60 points
GOOD TO KNOW
Pig Latinultiplicationmay
Starts & ends withM … N
Syllablesmul · ti · pli · ca · tion
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