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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

multiplicação

Pronunciation / Transliteration: muw.ti.pli.kaˈsãw

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Multiplication/ˌmʌl.tɪ.plɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/
nounCEFR B1 (Intermediate)Top #3500 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"A multiplicação é usada para calcular áreas."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The process of adding a number to itself a specified number of times, or a mathematical operation that scales one number by another.

    "Students in elementary school learn multiplication before moving on to division."
  2. 2

    The act or process of increasing in number, quantity, or degree.

    "The rapid multiplication of cell cultures was observed under the microscope."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Middle English and Old French multiplicacioun, ultimately stemming from the Latin multiplicare (to increase or multiply), formed from multus (many) and plicare (to fold). The term entered mathematical and general vocabulary in the late Middle Ages to denote the process of increasing in number or quantity.

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