Definitions for multiple

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multiple mul·ti·ple

Spelling: [muhl-tuh-puh l]

IPA: /ˈmʌl tə pəl/

Multiple is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 197 anagrams from letters in multiple (eillmptu).

Definitions for multiple

noun

1. Mathematics. a number that contains another number an integral number of times without a remainder:
2. Electricity. a group of terminals arranged to make a circuit or group of circuits accessible at a number of points at any one of which connection can be made.

adjective

1. consisting of, having, or involving several or many individuals, parts, elements, relations, etc.; manifold.
2. Electricity. (of circuits) arranged in parallel. (of a circuit or circuits) having a number of points at which connection can be made.
3. Botany. (of a fruit) collective.

Origin of multiple

1570-80; French Late Latin multiplus manifold. See multi-, duple

Examples for multiple

He has abandoned the single hypothesis for the multiple hypothesis.

There was Carol White, a ho-hum homemaker who finds herself besieged by multiple chemical sensitivity in Safe.

But his motives for shooting John Paul II have remained a mystery shrouded in multiple conspiracy theories.

Books of multiple authorship often possess too wide a diversity of viewpoints.

They were going to fight Pippin's multiple shops and beat them.

This earth is made too subtly, of too multiple warp and woof, for prophecy.

There is such a thing as multiple personality, and there is also multiple nationality.

I would be happy to see books of essays that have the benefit of multiple drafts and editors.

We arrived to the din of a party in full swing: a band, multiple kegs of beer, dancing, foosball, and mantle diving.

Good intelligence comes when multiple sources and types (human, technical, open) of information are pulled together.