Definition of "multiplication table" [multiplication table]

• A table, used as an aid in memorization, that lists the products of certain numbers multiplied together, typically the numbers 1 to 12. (noun)

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• "The fact is, by the time you knew Comly from lid to lid; the spelling and reading, and stories with moral lessons, and definitions, multiplication table and all, and could teach it to others, you knew more than some present day country school teachers holding first grade certificates."
• "John Comly's speller and reader had also the multiplication table and this was a part of the education of the Comly students."
• "Oh! if you could have heard the account given me this morning by the poor matron of a children's hospital of her Irish "help" – that is, the eleven hindrances (maid-servants) under her immediate control (uncontrol) – you certainly would have wondered, as I often do here, whether the Irish alphabet and multiplication table are the same as those used anywhere else in the world; they seem so incapable of any but what I think must be called Irish conclusions, i.e., confusions."