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multiplicative, a. and n.|ˈmʌltɪplɪkətɪv|
[ad. med.L. multiplicātīv-us, f. multiplicāt-, ppl. stem of multiplicāre to multiply: see -ive.]
a. Tending to multiply or increase; having the power or property of multiplying.
1653R. G. tr. Bacon's Hist. Winds 350 It is a Diffusive, Communicative, Transitive and Multiplicative Motion. 1670Clarke Nat. Hist. Nitre 18 The form of Minerals is multiplicative of it self in a dispos'd matter, and proper place. 1765Univ. Mag. XXXVII. 236/1 The plague..proves the multiplicative power of those spirits. 1863Dana in Amer. Jrnl. Sci. XXXVI. 325 The abnormal number of segments under the multiplicative method may arise from a self-subdivision of enlarging normal segments. 1868A. Sandeman Pelicotetics 24 By finding the products in backward order the multiplicative and the additive parts of the process may be carried on together.
b. Gram. Applied to numerals that express ‘so many times’. Also n., a multiplicative numeral.
1727–52Chambers Cycl., Multiplicatives. See Numerals. 1863W. Smith Gram. Lat. Lang. §71. 33 Multiplicative Numerals end in -plex. 1872Morris Hist. Outl. Eng. Accid. §134 Multiplicatives are expressed..By adjectives, with suffix -fold [etc.]. 1886T. Le M. Douse Gothic of Ulfilas 149 ‘Multiplicative’ adjs. are formed by adding falþa-, ‘-fold’ to the cardinals. 1928H. Poutsma Gram. Late Mod. Eng. (ed. 2) iv. 304 The multiplicatives double, treble, quadruple.
So ˈmultiplicatively adv.
1895in Funk's Stand. Dict. 1914C. D. Broad Perception iii. 180 The strengthening of probability takes place multiplicatively. 1973Nature 23 Feb. 513/1 The latter possibility has an attractive feature, namely that Misner's mechanism, and the one described here would operate simultaneously, the two effects combining multiplicatively. |