(n.) A great number of persons collected together; a numerous collection of persons; a crowd; an assembly.
(n.) A great number of persons or things, regarded collectively; as, the book will be read by a multitude of people; the multitude of stars; a multitude of cares.
(n.) The state of being many; numerousness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cadavers have a multitude of possible uses--from the harvesting of organs, to medical education, to automotive safety testing--and yet their actual utilization arouses profound aversion no matter how altruistic and beneficial the motivation.
(2) The basic question about the future of media perhaps becomes clearer and can more succinctly be asked: will Facebook be earning more from its multitude of users in 10 years – when there are no more users to be had – or will Comcast?
(3) Isocyanates are highly reactive chemicals capable of causing a multitude of toxicologic effects including respiratory irritation, dermal irritation, contact sensitivity, and pulmonary hypersensitivity.
(4) Pulmonary edema probably will always remain difficult to their mechanism of production, in so far as can be estimated from the multitude of substances.
(5) In a complex so large that travelator conveyor belts were installed to ferry visitors between the exhibition halls, the multitude of new gadgets on display can be bewildering.
(6) Its assessment is a damning one on a health service that was struggling with a multitude of problems and at a time of great change.
(7) The present results show that propentofylline and its hydroxylated metabolite can influence adenosine mechanisms in a multitude of ways.
(8) Conformational study on phosphopantetheine shows that this compound has an intrinsic tendency to adopt a multitude of conformations which contain hydrogen bonds involving the sulphydryl, hydroxyl, carbonyl and amide groups.
(9) A multitude of topical agents have been tried with variable results.
(10) I never felt stirrings of faith – apart from when faced with natural wonders such as the multilayered celestial splendour of a night sky, my newborn babies, an epic coastline – so I embraced tolerance and tried to remain open to the multitude of organised belief systems I don’t share.
(11) Furthermore, this patient presents a multitude of complications developing from large angiomas.
(12) I wonder: are there any historical precedents for the ageing multitudes who now keep rock'n'roll in business?
(13) The multitude of caval filters now available and conflicting experimental and clinical findings indicate that no one model can be considered to be perfect.
(14) Chronic renal failure (CRF) is the consequence of a multitude of diseases that cause permanent destruction of the nephron.
(15) Despite the multitude of losses we experience in our lifetime, death is likely to be the most paramount.
(16) A multitude of variants can be mounted from just four system components.
(17) Injections of horseradish peroxidase (HRP) into the habenula of squirrel monkeys labeled a multitude of neurons in the lateal hypothalamus and a lesser number of neurons in the internal pallidum (GPi).
(18) Separation of the symptoms of this syndrome from the symptoms of a multitude of other postgastrectomy syndromes is difficult, being complicated by a high incidence of emotional instability in these patients.
(19) Because we have this multitude of games, I hope Remy picks it up,” Hiddink said.
(20) The answer lies in the multitude of tiny modifiable connections between neuronal cells, the information-processing units of the brain.
Multitudinous
Definition:
(a.) Consisting of a multitude; manifold in number or condition; as, multitudinous waves.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a multitude.
Example Sentences:
(1) Treatment approaches are multitudinous and sometimes conflicting, partly due to problems in definition of the disorder, and the role of psychoanalysis is still unclear.
(2) Fluorocitrate, a Krebs cycle inhibitor, induices neurons to rapidly expel multitudinous lysosomes, mitochondria, and other cytoplasmic constituents into their axons.
(3) These GC actions could be secondary to their multitudinous peripheral actions.
(4) Lager – which, say its multitudinous fans, has a crisper, cleaner taste than warm-brewed ales – was first made by monks in Bavaria 500 years ago, using a yeast that has since been shown to be a hybrid of European yeast and another yeast.
(5) In this paper the authors present a review of the multitudinous studies of researchers who have attempted to identify the sources of drug information utilized by physicians.
(6) The variety of nasal deformities of congenital, developmental, and traumatic origin is multitudinous.
(7) Since its discovery, ANF has provided multitudinous opportunities to explore its relationship to various biologic functions.
(8) The fine cellular structure of both species showed multitudinous plasma membrane folds on their surfaces.
(9) Even more than a national treasure, Ken was a local hero, the boy who grew up cycling between the multitudinous cinemas of Southampton, and who went on to become the area's most celebrated son.
(10) In the case of the autogenous graft generally smaller, and in the case of homologous composite flexor tendon graft more multitudinous adhesions occurred between flexor tendon and tendon sheath.
(11) Although the influences of temperature on plants are multitudinous, many can be predicted, or at least analysed, based on well-established physical principles.
(12) The mood of Thoreau is more interior; the eye is not on an audience but on a multitudinous world of sensation, seen and named with precision.
(13) It was the worst violence to hit France since the second world war – a stunning act of organised multitudinous terror.
(14) The common origin of the multitudinous RV serotypes so suggested is consistent with the extensive antigenic cross-relations which are becoming evident.
(15) Such a multitudinous and concomitant expression of antigenicity to the different tumor elements indicates a close relationship to its mesodermal Müllerian origin, and NSE, S 100 and vimentin might be most adequate indicators of these types of tumors.
(16) Last year the author Tom Bower brought out a critical biography, in spite of the worst that Branson's multitudinous lawyers could do none of whom has yet managed to land a glove on the book.
(17) Arthropoda form the most diversified and multitudinous phyllum of the animal kingdom.
(18) Multitudinous embryonic macrocommunication and microcommunication between the arterial and venous systems, with resultant shunting of blood to the low-resistance veins, produce massive venous and tissue engorgement.
(19) Five cases involving the terminal ileum or colon had a gross appearance of multitudinous mucosal polyps and were considered to represent examples of "multiple lymphomatous polyposis."
(20) Heaven forbid that the multitudinous poor should also have somewhere beautiful and uplifting in which to swim and relax.