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multiplicate

[ muhl-tuh-pli-keyt ]

adjective

  1. multiple; manifold.


multiplicate

/ ˈ³¾ÊŒ±ô³Ùɪ±è±ôɪˌ°ì±ðɪ³Ù /

adjective

  1. rare.
    manifold
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of multiplicate1

1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin ³¾³Ü±ô³Ù¾±±è±ô¾±³¦Äå³Ù³Ü²õ, past participle of ³¾³Ü±ô³Ù¾±±è±ô¾±³¦Äå°ù±ð to multiply 1, increase. See multi-, plicate
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Example Sentences

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The exhibition’s title operates both as a nod to its multiplicate structure and, depending on how you say it, a gesture of wry self-reflexivity: You, again?

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People were probably leaning over this barrier to get the ideal photograph, the one I had been seeing in multiplicate.

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For the inheritance seems to consist of sets of hereditary qualities not in duplicate merely but in multiplicate; they are not all of equal strength or of equal stability; there may be a struggle amongst them; and they are subject to changes induced by the changes in the complex nutritive supply which the parental body—their bearer—affords.

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Similarly, working in the other direction, there is struggle between parts or tissues in the body, between cells in the body, between equivalent germ-cells, and, perhaps, as Weismann pictures, between the various multiplicate items that make up our inheritance.

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Multiplicate: with many longitudinal folds or lines of plication.

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