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The act or process of multiplying or the condition of being multiplied.
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Propagation of plants and animals; procreation.
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Mathematics The operation that, for positive integers, consists of adding a number (the multiplicand) to itself a certain number of times. The operation is extended to other real numbers according to the rules governing the multiplicational properties of positive integers.
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Mathematics Any of certain analogous operations involving expressions other than real numbers.
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