multiplication

Noun
  1. The act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production (synset 100851612)
    is a type of: breeding, facts of life, procreation, reproduction - the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring
    subtypes: biogenesis, biogeny - the production of living organisms from other living organisms
    same as: generation, propagation
  2. A multiplicative increase (synset 113539046)
    "repeated copying leads to a multiplication of errors"; "this multiplication of cells is a natural correlate of growth"
    is a type of: growth, increase, increment - a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
    subtypes:
  3. An arithmetic operation that is the inverse of division;
    The product of two numbers is computed (synset 100873254)
    "the multiplication of four by three gives twelve"; "four times three equals twelve"
    is a type of: arithmetic operation - a mathematical operation involving numbers
    same as: times

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