(v. t.) To increase in number; to make more numerous; to add quantity to.
(v. t.) To add (any given number or quantity) to itself a certain number of times; to find the product of by multiplication; thus 7 multiplied by 8 produces the number 56; to multiply two numbers. See the Note under Multiplication.
(v. t.) To increase (the amount of gold or silver) by the arts of alchemy.
(v. i.) To become greater in number; to become numerous.
(v. i.) To increase in extent and influence; to spread.
(v. i.) To increase amount of gold or silver by the arts of alchemy.
Example Sentences:
(1) If tracer is introduced into the carotid artery after osmotic treatment, brain uptake is increased by a net factor of 50 (a factor of 70 due to elevation of PA, multiplied by 7 due to infusion by the carotid route) as compared to uptake by normal, untreated brain with infusion into a peripheral vein.
(2) Furthermore, high-density catalase-positive--but not catalase-negative--E. coli can survive and multiply in the presence of competitive, peroxide-generating streptococci.
(3) But the company's problems appear to be multiplying, with rumours that suppliers are demanding earlier payment than before, putting pressure on HTC's cash position.
(4) ); and 3) those that multiply and produce large numbers of vegetative cells in the food, then release an active enterotoxin when they sporulate in the gut.
(5) These data demonstrate that membrane vesicles from multiply drug-resistant cells bind increased amounts of vinblastine.
(6) This ability may be associated with virulence, because an attenuated strain of L. pneumophila fails to multiply within this protozoan, whereas a virulent strain increases 10,000-fold in number when coincubated with T. pyriformis.
(7) The endogenous basal appearance rates of BCAA, estimated by the basal concentrations multiplied by the plasma clearances, were lower in cirrhotics (P less than 0.025).
(8) Urine specimens from 93 selected subjects were run by fluorescence polarization immunoassay on the Abbott TDx; by enzyme multiplied immunoassay with two Syva EMIT assays; and by thin-layer chromatography with the TOXI-LAB system (Marion Laboratories).
(9) The cells displayed an epithelial pattern and multiplied rapidly.
(10) When a supercoiled substrate bearing two FLP target sequences in inverse orientation is treated with FLP, the products are multiply knotted structures that arise as a result of random entrapment of interdomainal supercoils.
(11) Two fish rhabdoviruses, spring viraemia of Carp virus (SVC) and Pike fry rhabdovirus (PFR), have been shown to multiply in Drosophila melanogaster.
(12) Comparisons of homogeneous enzyme multiplied immunoassay technique (EMIT) and high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) revealed that the EMIT slightly over-estimated plasma carbamazepine levels due to immunochemical cross reactivity with the epoxide metabolite.
(13) Like the S strains of Brucella, the R strains are able to multiply in the mouse spleen.
(14) Twenty-two parent (multiplier) breeder flocks became infected.
(15) From inocula of 100-350 organisms all 21 strains multiplied following immediate incubation, and 20 of 21 when incubation was delayed for 3 days.
(16) To study important epitopes on glycoprotein E2 of Sindbis virus, eight variants selected to be singly or multiply resistant to six neutralizing monoclonal antibodies reactive against E2, as well as four revertants which had regained sensitivity to neutralization, were sequenced throughout the E2 region.
(17) Mutations in the hrpC locus, although preventing the bacteria from eliciting a hypersensitive reaction on tobacco, allowed the bacteria to produce delayed and attenuated symptoms in Red Kidney bean leaves and to multiply to a level 10(2)- to 10(3)-fold lower than that of the wild-type strain.
(18) infection of mice, the lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus multiplied in this organ.
(19) The authors studied retrospectively the formation of clinically significant red cell (RBC) alloantibodies in 958 HLA-typed, multiply transfused patients receiving kidney (603 patients) or liver (263 patients) transplants or plateletpheresis transfusions (92 patients).
(20) Four of the foster grandchildren, all profoundly retarded and multiply handicapped, demonstrated progress throughout the study.
Quintuple
Definition:
(a.) Multiplied by five; increased to five times the amount; fivefold.
(v. t.) To make fivefold, or five times as much or many.
Example Sentences:
(1) The largest increases in brain weights in both sexes occurred during the first 3 years of life, when the value quadruples over that at birth, while during the subsequent 15 years the brain weight barely quintuples over that at birth.
(2) Japan 's 'quintuple dip' recession delivers a fresh blow to Abenomics Read more Economics minister Akira Amari said a lack of workers available for public works projects worth billions of pounds restricted the government’s ability to bolster the economy.
(3) In Types II, III, V and most Type IV capillaries, the interendothelial junctions contained quintuple-layered zones.
(4) 4.40pm BST 83 min: "Somewhere in China there is a factory that makes inflatable plastic sheep that is desperately waiting for the word that they can go ahead and quintuple this summer's production run," says Marie Meyer.
(5) When we infused autologous plasma, incubated with dialyzer cellophane, into rabbits and sheep, sudden leukopenia and hypoxia occurred, with doubling of pulmonary-artery pressures and quintupling of pulmonary-lymph effluent.
(6) By a double-antibody RIA method, we assayed LH and FSH in quintuplicate or triplicate in each sample and counted the tubes twice consecutively.
(7) Almost every constituency party across the country we contacted reported doubling, trebling, quadrupling or even quintupling membership, and a revival of branches that had been moribund for years and close to folding.
(8) Both prothrombin and plasminogen show internal sequence homology resulting from partial gene duplication and quintuplication respectively; each internal homology loop in prothrombin shows significant homology with each of the five putative loops in plasminogen.
(9) One case of grade 1 papillary carcinoma and some of grade 2 showed a small proportion of aneuploid cells; the proportion quintupled in grade 3.
(10) Hyaluronic acid content was determined in quintuplicate colorimetrically after treatment of streptococci with hyaluronidase.
(11) Using standard TAT and CGG homopolymers, single, triple, and quintuple molecular replacements are made.
(12) Single SETi or FETi impulses can initiate an IR contraction, and cause altered phasing, with up to a quintupling of frequency.
(13) When choline replaces Na+ in perfusate and bathing medium, cell volume doubles, and intercellular space volume nearly quintuples.
(14) Profits quintupled compared with the same period in 2012 – in part due to its new UK operation.
(15) After three postwar decades when cheap oil was taken for granted, the oil-importing nations were hit for six by the 1973-74 oil shock, and Healey’s chancellorship was beleaguered by a quintupling of the price of oil.
(16) Polling on the subject is shot through with inconsistencies, but one thing screams out from the data : according to the UK Energy Research Centre, between 2005 and 2013, the share of people who rejected the very idea of climate change almost quintupled, from 4% to 19%.
(17) A quintuple mutant, with all cysteines converted to alanines (Quint), was also constructed.
(18) The authors report a case of Werner's syndrome complicated by quintuplicate malignancy, and review the literature data.
(19) About three thousand resin vascular casts of human renal glomeruli were examined with a scanning electron microscope, and two extremely rare glomeruli with quadruple or quintuple efferent arterioles were found.
(20) The result is a large platelike, quintuple-layered structure, 240-260 A thick, whose long axis parallels that of the mitochondrion.