Emily Dickinson Lexicon

MUL-TI-PLI-CA'TION, n. [L. multiplicatio.]

1. The net of multiplying or of increasing number; as, the multiplication of the human species by natural generation.
2. In arithmetic, a rule or operation by which any given number may be increased according to any number of times proposed. Thus 10 multiplied by 5 is increased to 50.