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Example sentences for "multiplication"

Lexicographically close words:
multiphase; multiple; multiples; multiplex; multiplicand; multiplications; multiplices; multiplicity; multiplie; multiplied
  1. Every one, smitten with the fever of sum-totals and dazzled by the multiplication table, plunged into trade.

  2. We are conscious of a sustained crescendo, an incessant multiplication of the universal frenzy.

  3. You talk about it as though it were as easy to know God's will as it is to know the multiplication table.

  4. Well, at least it can be said that one does not get to know the multiplication table without effort!

  5. We believe, then, that these attempts at exact reproduction, this method of the multiplication of particulars, involve a fallacy, and are detrimental to the more enduring forms of art.

  6. In Eastern Europe the movement has proceeded gradually, keeping pace with the rise and recognition of separate governments, and the result has been the multiplication of internal ecclesiastical divisions.

  7. No such rigorous control over the multiplication of rites and deities has been instituted elsewhere.

  8. Gemmules differ from true ovules or buds inasmuch as they are supposed to be capable of multiplication in their undeveloped state.

  9. The existence of free gemmules is a gratuitous assumption, yet can hardly be considered as very improbable, seeing that cells have the power of multiplication through the self-division of their contents.

  10. With uncrossed breeds the same result would follow, under conditions which favoured the multiplication and development of certain dormant gemmules, as when animals become feral and revert to their pristine character.

  11. Some of these endemic and naturalised plants are probably rendered sterile from excessive multiplication by buds, and their consequent incapacity to produce and nourish seed.

  12. But I shall have to recur, in the chapter on pangenesis, to the abnormal multiplication of organs, and likewise to their occasional transposition.

  13. The increase of the robin and other small birds which follow the settler when he has prepared a suitable home for them, at last checked the excessive multiplication of the worms, and abated the nuisance.

  14. The increase in the size of the trout was as remarkable as the multiplication of their numbers.

  15. Babinet supposes the parasites which attack the grape and the potato to be animal, not vegetable, and he ascribes their multiplication to excessive manuring and stimulation of the growth of the plants on which they live.

  16. Man has promoted the multiplication of fish by making war on their brute enemies, but he has by no means thereby compensated his own greater destructiveness.

  17. The recent great multiplication of vipers in some parts of France is a singular and startling fact.

  18. The multiplication of public placeholders, which they imply, is a serious evil.

  19. But you will perhaps urge against virginity the injury which it does to population; you will consider the offerings which are made on the altar by this virtue as so much taken from the multiplication of the human race.

  20. Almost every kind of insect is subject to the attacks of these little creatures, which are no doubt useful in preventing the too great multiplication of insects, and especially of caterpillars.

  21. In the Amoebas, as in Protamoeba, multiplication takes place by self-division, and nothing corresponding to sexual reproduction has yet been discovered.

  22. The home teacher often has no higher aim than that the children should learn it by rote--learn to rattle it off like the multiplication table, or the rules of grammar.

  23. By giving only a little time and attention to it each week, the parents could easily, in a few years, have all their children know it as perfectly as they know their multiplication table.

  24. But the Tunisian's principal occasions for discontent are the compulsory military service, and the multiplication and weight of the taxes.

  25. But they have a quaint system of learning their multiplication tables by mnemonics, in which every number is represented by a letter, and these being made up into words, are committed to memory in place of the figures.

  26. SNSN, when in it each compound symbol SpSq is replaced by the single symbol Sr that is equivalent to it, is called the multiplication table of the group.

  27. The fundamental operations of elementary arithmetic consist in the addition and subtraction of integers, and multiplication and division by integers, division by zero alone omitted.

  28. Multiplication by zero is not a definite operation, and it must therefore be omitted in dealing with those operations of elementary arithmetic which form a group.

  29. Even this was severe enough as compared with its later expansion, for the multiplication of harmonized chants and florid anthems belongs to a later date, and the ancient Plain Song still included a large part of the service.

  30. The multiplication of hymns and chorals went on throughout the sixteenth century and into the seventeenth with unabated vigor.

  31. This English idea that a university is a mere multiplication of colleges is so firmly fixed that the very word is defined as "a collection of institutions of learning at a common centre.

  32. Quite aside from the physical and moral benefit to the men engaged, this multiplication of contests has a striking effect in lessening the importance of winning or losing any particular one of them.

  33. As in England, a multiplication of contests would on the one hand develop far better university material, and on the other hand it would lessen rather than exaggerate the excessive importance of intercollegiate contests.

  34. He was a mighty wrestler with the multiplication table.

  35. He had a sort of crude reverence for education, and it had seemed to him a very serious matter to take such liberties with the multiplication table.

  36. The reasons inducing inquisitors to the perpetual and illegal multiplication of these officials are not far to seek.

  37. Doubtless through these inflictions the culprits escaped corporal punishments much less endurable, and they serve to explain the persistent multiplication of familiars, coupled with disregard of the character of the appointees.

  38. But the multiplication table, Miss Pinshon said, was easy work; and at that and reading and writing, the morning crept away.

  39. Miss Pinshon desired me now to repeat the multiplication table.

  40. I prayed that I might be patient and obedient and take disagreeable things pleasantly and do my duty in the multiplication table.

  41. Multiplication and its correlatives were the staple of existence; and the old book room of my grandfather was the place where my harvests of learning were sown and reaped.

  42. Tears in the first place had a great mind to come, and would put themselves between me and the figures in the multiplication table.

  43. Preston, Miss Pinshon, the servants' quarters, the multiplication table, all were forgotten and lost in a misty distance.

  44. Do you find the multiplication table there?

  45. When I seemed a little stronger than usual, Miss Pinshon tried the multiplication table; and I tried, but the spring of my mind was for the time broken.

  46. I was stronger in health, accustomed to my circumstances; there was no longer any reason that the multiplication table and I should be parted.

  47. And now, Daisy, you may sit down there in the window and study the multiplication table.

  48. Do you know the multiplication and division tables?

  49. I thought she might have let so much sweetness as that come into the multiplication table.

  50. You cannot say that the multiplication table is not in the mind when you are repeating it and wondering who will be at the party this evening.

  51. It is easy to repeat the multiplication table without having it focal in the mind.

  52. When they hand me the bill, I take out a revolver, and begin chanting the multiplication in English.

  53. I have tried cursing and swearing at them, but nothing is half so good as the multiplication chanted in a low voice.

  54. In the preceding section the mode of multiplication of the segments has already been sufficiently described[140].

  55. Averrhoes, "an intelligence which, without multiplication of itself, animates all the individuals of the human species, in respect to their exercising the functions of a rational soul.

  56. He learned the whole multiplication table in a single day when he was eight years old.

  57. It is highly probable that the nucleus plays an extremely important part within the cell--a part less connected with the function and specific office of the cell, than with its maintenance and multiplication as a living part.

  58. In adult life the mode of its multiplication is unknown.

  59. What type of study is involved in learning a multiplication table, a list of words in spelling, a conjugation in French?

  60. The one was teaching the multiplication tables to the other.

  61. Twenty-five words in spelling, a whole multiplication table, a complete conjugation in Latin, all suggest the danger of mistakes which will be difficult to eliminate later on.

  62. Addition improves multiplication because multiplication is largely addition; knowledge of Latin gives increased ability to learn French because many of the facts learned in the one case are needed in the other.


  63. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "multiplication" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
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