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MULTIPLICATIVE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does multiplicative mean?
• MULTIPLICATIVE (adjective)
The adjective MULTIPLICATIVE has 1 sense:
1. tending or having the power to multiply or increase in number or quantity or degree
Familiarity information: MULTIPLICATIVE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tending or having the power to multiply or increase in number or quantity or degree
Context example:
the multiplicative tendency of proportional representation
Similar:
increasing (becoming greater or larger)
Derivation:
multiply (combine or increase by multiplication)
multiply (combine by multiplication)
Context examples
The NMDA receptors did this by amplifying the cells’ responses to the bars in a process called multiplicative scaling.
(Eye cells may use math to detect motion, NIH)
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