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MULTIPLIERS

"MULTIPLIERS" is a plural of: multiplier.

Date "MULTIPLIERS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references)


Specialty Definition: MULTIPLIERS

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Literature

Multipliers Alchemists, who pretended to multiply gold and silver. An act was passed (2 Henry IV., c. iv.) making the "art of multiplication" felony. In the Canterbury Tales, the Chanoun Yeman says he was reduced to poverty by alchemy, adding: "Lo, such advantage is't to multiply." (Prologue to Chanouncs Tale.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: MULTIPLIERS

Specialty definitions using "MULTIPLIERS": BILLING-CONTROL CLERKConstructive Cost ModelEffort Adjustment Factorfront side busSecondary Electron EmissionunderflowWeighting factorx86 processor socket. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: MULTIPLIERS

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Moldova

Other Moldova business multipliers may be approached as well. (references)

Japan

Working closely with the American Chamber of Commerce and other regional multipliers, CS Osaka helps promote American products, services and tourism through highly targeted events, U.S. Pavilions at trade shows, media events, speaker programs on commercial subjects, networking, key introductions and advocacy. (references)

Trade

Kuwait

In addition, "macro" multipliers, depending on the economic sector in which the investment is made, can further increase the value of these credits. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: MULTIPLIERS

"MULTIPLIERS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "MULTIPLIERS" is used about 19 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)100%1980,337

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: MULTIPLIERS

Derivations

Words ending with "MULTIPLIERS": photomultipliers. (additional references)


Misspellings

"MULTIPLIERS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: mulitplier, multilayers, multiloads, multipier, multiplexers, multiplyer. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: MULTIPLIERS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-i-i-l-l-m-p-r-s-t-u"

-1 letter: multiplier, multiplies.

-2 letters: multiples, prelimits, puerilism, reptilium, rumpliest, spirillum, spirituel, trilliums.

-3 letters: imperils, imputers, limiters, limpsier, lumpiest, milliers, mullites, multiple, plumiest, prelimit, purities, stillier, stumpier, trillium, utiliser.

-4 letters: elitism, illites, illumes, imperil, impetus, implies, imprest, impulse, imputer, imputes, limiest, limiter, limites, limpers, limpest, limpets, lumpers, lumpier, lustier, milieus, millers, millets, millier, milreis, milters, miltier.

 Words containing the letters "e-i-i-l-l-m-p-r-s-t-u"
 

+4 letters: multipolarities.

 

+5 letters: photomultipliers.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: MULTIPLIERS


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 55 4C 54 49 50 4C 49 45 52 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--    ..-    .-..    -    ..    .--.    .-..    ..    .    .-.    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01010101 01001100 01010100 01001001 01010000 01001100 01001001 01000101 01010010 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#85 &#76 &#84 &#73 &#80 &#76 &#73 &#69 &#82 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0055 004C 0054 0049 0050 004C 0049 0045 0052 0053

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4755465443504643395253

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Usage Frequency
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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