MULTIPLICATIONS Synonyms: 40 Similar and Opposite Words

multiplications

noun

plural of multiplication

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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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Scheibenbogen reports that the kids who cut out social media entirely showed modest increases in mental well-being that started wearing off five weeks later.

— Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
With the combination of high-efficiency amplification and low-loss fiber, Petal doubles cable capacity without proportional power increases.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 19 Oct. 2026

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In both North America and Europe, clean electrification and digital infrastructure are outstripping renewable additions like wind and solar.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026
This is the specific problem Dell Technologies is addressing with the newest additions to the Dell AI Data Platform with NVIDIA, the data context layer of the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA.

— Osman Koc, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026

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