multiple

CEFRC1

/ˈmʌltɪpəl/

adjective · determiner · noun

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In plain English

01
adjective
Many, or more than one.
02
adjective
Extra detail
Having more than one element, part, component, or function, having more than one instance, occurring more than once, usually contrary to expectations (can be followed by a singular).

Examples

One sentence may have multiple meanings in one language.
The shape appears multiple times within each painting.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 3
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 5

Deep Dive

adjective

Extra meaning

Of a person: displaying or experiencing two or more distinct personalities or selves in one body.

determiner

Extra meaning

More than one (followed by plural).

noun

Extra meaning

A whole number that is obtained by multiplying a specific whole number by another whole number.

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In context

There was a multiple collision on the highway.
It was a multiple pregnancy: the woman had triplets.
My Swiss Army knife has multiple blades.

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Citations

The word in print, with each source given in full.

A study Kennedy discussed on multiple podcast episodes exposed male African clawed frogs to atrazine in a lab, castrating 75% of the male frogs and turning one in 10 males into females.
2023 July 13, Abby Turner and Andrew Kaczynski, “Robert F. Kennedy Jr. repeatedly suggested that chemicals in water are impacting sexuality of children”, in CNN
Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.[…]A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that. Developed as a tool to electronically combine the sharpest bits of multiple digital images, focus stacking is a boon to biologists seeking full focus on a micron scale.
2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist, archived from the original on 29 Jun 2015
One might view this attempt to ensure the scarcity of a multiple as both a marketing ploy and form of elitism.
1996, Southeastern College Art Conference Review
I had seen its first show when it was a freebie, but I thought it made multiples in general look silly – no one changes clothes THAT much!
2010, Ann M. Garvey, Ann's Multiple World of Personality: Regular No Cream, No Sugar
Non-abused multiples have no need of doctors, and they have carved out a foothold of their own from where they speak confidently about their utopian vision of a multiple world.
2000, Henk Driessen, Ton Otto, Perplexities of identification, page 115

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Origin

adjective

From French multiple, itself from Late Latin multiplus.

Deep Dive

adjective

determiner

noun

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Quick test

The system detected blank— errors in the code, all of which were critical and needed immediate fixing.

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Origin

adjective

The system detected blank errors in the code, all of which were critical and needed immediate fixing.