Multiplication - Definition

n 1: the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such
production [syn: generation, multiplication,
propagation]
2: a multiplicative increase; "repeated copying leads to a
multiplication of errors"; "this multiplication of cells is a
natural correlate of growth"
3: an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of division; the
product of two numbers is computed; "the multiplication of
four by three gives twelve"; "four times three equals twelve"
[syn: multiplication, times]