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Multiplier   Listen
noun
Multiplier  n.  
1.
One who, or that which, multiplies or increases number.
2.
(Math.) The number by which another number (the multiplicand) is multiplied. See the Note under Multiplication.
3.
(Physics) An instrument for multiplying or increasing by repetition or accumulation the intensity of a force or action, as heat or electricity. It is particularly used to render such a force or action appreciable or measurable when feeble. See Thermomultiplier.






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"Multiplier" Quotes from Famous Books



... off the roll and a fresh one started, and when time is up the engine is stopped and the diagrams compared. Then commence the calculations, which are gone through somewhat in this manner: the common multiplier is found by multiplying the area of the piston in inches by the speed of the piston in feet per minute and the product divided by 32,000 (Watt's horse-power), then the effective mean pressure found on the diagram is multiplied by the common ...
— The Stoker's Catechism • W. J. Connor

... machine from being a commercial success, and it is not any longer made. For ease and rapidity of working it surpasses all others. Since the lazy-tongs allow of an extension equivalent to five turnings of the handle, if the multiplier is 5 or under, one push forward will do the [v.04 p.0974] same as five (or less) turns of the handle, and more than two ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 - "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" • Various

... evident that the digital roots of the two numbers required by the puzzle must produce the same root in sum and product. This can only happen when the roots of the two numbers are 2 and 2, or 9 and 9, or 3 and 6, or 5 and 8. Therefore the two-figure multiplier must have a digital root of 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, or 9. There are ten such numbers in each case. I write out all the sixty, then I strike out all those numbers where the second figure is higher than the ...
— The Canterbury Puzzles - And Other Curious Problems • Henry Ernest Dudeney

... one-twentieth as long as A, and to correspondingly reduce the weight, H, relatively to D. In this case, on account of the angle of rotation of the beam, E, being greater than the angle of rotation of A, the beam, E, becomes a multiplier of the indications of the primary ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887 • Various



Words linked to "Multiplier" :   number, multiply, electron multiplier, Cockcroft-Walton voltage multiplier, scale factor, Cockcroft and Walton voltage multiplier, multiplier factor



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