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multiple
English
Etymology
From French multiple, itself from Late Latin multiplus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?m?lt?pl?/
Adjective
multiple (not comparable)
- More than one (followed by plural).
- Having more than one element, part, component, or function, having more than one instance, occurring more than once, usually contrary to expectations (can be followed by a singular).
Synonyms
- (more than one): manifold, many, morefold, several; see also Thesaurus:manifold
- plural
Antonyms
- (many): paucal (rare)
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Noun
multiple (plural multiples)
- (mathematics) A whole number that can be divided by another number with no remainder.
- 14, 21 and 70 are multiples of 7
- (finance) Price-earnings ratio.
- One of a set of the same thing; a duplicate.
- 1996, Southeastern College Art Conference Review
- One might view this attempt to ensure the scarcity of a multiple as both a marketing ploy and form of elitism.
- 1996, Southeastern College Art Conference Review
- A single individual who has multiple personalities.
- 2010, Ann M. Garvey, Ann's Multiple World of Personality: Regular No Cream, No Sugar
- I had seen its first show when it was a freebie, but I thought it made multiples in general look silly – no one changes clothes THAT much!
- 2000, Henk Driessen, Ton Otto, Perplexities of identification (page 115)
- Non-abused multiples have no need of doctors, and they have carved out a foothold of their own from where they speak confidently about their utopian vision of a multiple world.
- 2010, Ann M. Garvey, Ann's Multiple World of Personality: Regular No Cream, No Sugar
- One of a set of siblings produced by a multiple birth.
- A chain store.
- 1979, Management Today (page 96)
- The big advantage such multiples can offer over a purely catalogue operation is that winners can be given shopping vouchers enabling them to choose from goods on display in the multiples' many outlets (Woolworths, for example, has 1,000).
- 1979, Management Today (page 96)
- A discovery resulting from the work of many people throughout history, not merely the work of the person who makes the final connection.
- 2016, Thomas Söderqvist, The History and Poetics of Scientific Biography (page 99)
- Merton's argument that all scientific discoveries are multiples would seem to contradict the theory of genius […]
- 2016, Thomas Söderqvist, The History and Poetics of Scientific Biography (page 99)
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.- 1976, Jewelers' Circular/Keystone (volume 147, issues 1-6, page 40)
- First of all, the 'greenhorn' stigma of piercing has worn off. The older woman sees her daughter wearing multiples. So she's confident enough to have her ears pierced at least once.
- 1976, Jewelers' Circular/Keystone (volume 147, issues 1-6, page 40)
Derived terms
Translations
Anagrams
- pull time
French
Etymology
From Late Latin multiplus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /myl.tipl/
Adjective
multiple (plural multiples)
- multiple
Noun
multiple m (plural multiples)
- (mathematics) Multiple.
Further reading
- “multiple” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Adjective
multiple
- feminine plural of multiplo
Latin
Adjective
multiple
- vocative masculine singular of multiplus
Swedish
Adjective
multiple
- absolute definite natural masculine form of multipel.
Anagrams
- multipel
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knotty
English
Etymology
From Middle English knotty, knotti, equivalent to knot +? -y. Compare Dutch knoestig (“knotty”), German knotig (“knotty”), Swedish knutig, knotig (“knotty”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?ti/
- Homophone: naughty (in accents with the cot-caught merger)
- Rhymes: -?ti
Adjective
knotty (comparative knottier or more knotty, superlative knottiest or most knotty)
- Full of knots.
- Complicated or tricky; complex, difficult.
- Synonyms: intricate, thorny
Derived terms
- Knotty Ash
Translations
Middle English
Alternative forms
- knotti, cnotti
Etymology
From knotte +? -y.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?kn?ti?/
Adjective
knotty
- knotted, tied, linked
- knotty, tangled, twisted
- knobby, bumpy, clumped
- knoblike, protruding
Descendants
- English: knotty
- Scots: knottie
References
- “knott?, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-23.
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