单词 | centuplication |
释义 | centuplicationn. Now rare. The action or process of multiplying something by a hundred. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > hundred and over > [noun] > hundred > multiplication by a hundred centuplation1630 centuplication1881 1881 R. D. Blackmore Christowell xvii, in Good Words May 291/1 When a man is in a hurry..every little thing that can converge to a confluence of tangles turns its whole vitality to that centumplication. 1895 B. Longo Hist. Sanctuary of Pompei 27 With the lapse of years,..with the centuplication of letters of foreigners. 1924 Amer. Mercury Dec. 466/2 An account of Brazil's material progress—its ‘delirium of civilization’, its centuplication of railroads, its acquisition of a merchant marine and of ships of war. 1946 New Statesman & Nation 11 May 346/1 The goal Of seventeenth centuplication. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1881 |
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