Multiple (a.) Containing more than once, or more than one |
Multiple (n.) A quantity containing another quantity a number of times without a remainder. |
multiple voting the act of voting in more than one place by the same person at the same election (illegal in U.S.) |
multiple the product of a quantity by an integer, " is a multiple of " |
lowest common multiple / least common multiple / lcm the smallest multiple that is exactly divisible by every member of a set of numbers, "the least common multiple of and is " |
law of multiple proportions / Dalton's law (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 |
multiple regression / multiple correlation a statistical technique that predicts values of one variable on the basis of two or more other variables |
multiple correlation coefficient an estimate of the combined influence of two or more variables on the observed (dependent) variable |
multiple star a system of three or more stars associated by gravity |
aggregate fruit / multiple fruit / syncarp fruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle: e.g. blackberry, raspberry, pineapple |
common multiple an integer that is a multiple of two or more other integers |
multiple sclerosis / MS / disseminated sclerosis / disseminated multiple sclerosis a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers |