multiple : Idioms & Phrases

• noun an integer that is a multiple of two or more other integers
  

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• (Arith.) See under Multiple.

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• noun a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers
  disseminated multiple sclerosis; disseminated sclerosis; MS.
  

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• (Chem.), the generalization that when the same elements unite in more than one proportion, forming two or more different compounds, the higher proportions of the elements in such compounds are simple multiplies of the lowest proportion, or the proportions are connected by some simple common factor; thus, iron and oxygen unite in the proportions FeO, Fe2O3, Fe3O4, in which compounds, considering the oxygen, 3 and 4 are simple multiplies of 1. Called also the Law of Dalton, from its discoverer.

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• noun (chemistry) law stating that when two elements can combine to form more than one compound the amounts of one of them that combines with a fixed amount of the other will exhibit a simple multiple relation
  Dalton's law.
  

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• noun the smallest multiple that is exactly divisible by every member of a set of numbers
  lcm; least common multiple.
  
  • the least common multiple of 12 and 18 is 36

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• noun the smallest multiple that is exactly divisible by every member of a set of numbers
  lcm; least common multiple.
  
  • the least common multiple of 12 and 18 is 36

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• a branch of advanced mathematics that treats of operations upon units compounded of two or more unlike units.

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• (Biol.), a coalescence of many cells (as where an indefinite number of amoeboid cells flow together into a single mass) from which conjugation proper and even fertilization may have been evolved.

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• noun a statistical technique that predicts values of one variable on the basis of two or more other variables
  multiple correlation.
  

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• noun an estimate of the combined influence of two or more variables on the observed (dependent) variable
  

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• noun fruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle: e.g. blackberry; raspberry; pineapple
  multiple fruit; syncarp; aggregate fruit.
  

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• noun fruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle: e.g. blackberry; raspberry; pineapple
  multiple fruit; syncarp; aggregate fruit.
  

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• . (Bot.) See Collective fruit, under Collective.

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• noun pathology of several individual nerve trunks
  

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• noun myeloma that develops in several places at the same time
  

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• noun inflammation of many or all of the peripheral nerves (as in leprosy)
  polyneuritis.
  

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• noun a relatively rare dissociative disorder in which the usual integrity of the personality breaks down and two or more independent personalities emerge
  split personality.
  

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• noun a statistical technique that predicts values of one variable on the basis of two or more other variables
  multiple correlation.
  

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• noun a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers
  disseminated multiple sclerosis; disseminated sclerosis; MS.
  

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• noun a system of three or more stars associated by gravity
  

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• (Astron.), several stars in close proximity, which appear to form a single system.

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• noun the act of voting in more than one place by the same person at the same election (illegal in U.S.)
  

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• adjective offering several alternative answers from which the correct one is to be chosen; or consisting of such questions
  
  • multiple-choice questions
  • a multiple-choice test

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