multiplication

noun ! Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about multiplication at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

1. The act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production.
2. A multiplicative increase.

   repeated copying leads to a multiplication of errors

3. An arithmetic operation that is the inverse of division; the product of two numbers is computed.

   the multiplication of four by three gives twelve