Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun multiplication

3 senses of multiplication

Sense 1
generation, multiplication, propagation -- (the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production)
       => reproduction, procreation, breeding, facts of life -- (the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring)

Sense 2
multiplication -- (a multiplicative increase; "repeated copying leads to a multiplication of errors"; "this multiplication of cells is a natural correlate of growth")
       => increase, increment, growth -- (a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important; "the increase in unemployment"; "the growth of population")

Sense 3
multiplication, times -- (an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of division; the product of two numbers is computed; "the multiplication of four by three gives twelve"; "four times three equals twelve")
       => arithmetic operation -- (a mathematical operation involving numbers)