multiples
SayMUL-ti-puhlz/ˈmʌltɪpəlz/
- 1Plural of multiple.
She wrote out the first ten multiples of seven for practice.
Investors compared the earnings multiples of several competing firms.
Note
One ordinary -s plural serves every noun meaning of multiple, so the surrounding words do the sorting. In arithmetic it takes of (the multiples of seven). In finance it pairs with earnings, short for price-earnings ratios. Elsewhere it can mean duplicates of one thing, siblings from a single birth, chain stores, or people who experience several selves, and context alone tells these apart.
multiples is a form of multiple
multiple, noun: A whole number produced by multiplying a given whole number by another whole number. Full entry
- Forms
- multiplemultiples plural
- Spelling
- multiple → multiples: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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