Search the Dictionary

being multiplied; as, the multiplication of the human species by natural generation. The increase and multiplication of the world. Thackeray.

One who, or that which, multiplies or increases number.

To increase in number; to make more numerous; to add quantity to. Impunity will multiply motives to disobedience. Ames.

A kind of cast steel containing nickel, which greatly increases its strength. It is used for armor plate, bicycle tubing, propeller shafts, etc.

To feed and cause to grow; to supply with matter which increases bulk or supplies waste, and promotes health; to furnish with nutriment. He planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it. Is. xliv. 14.

To manage with care and economy, with a view to increase; as, to nurse our national resources.

day of his death. The emoluments and advantages from oblations, obits, and other sources, increased in value. Milman. Post obit Etym: [L. post obitum]. See Post-obit.

of very fine texture, that is, silk twisted like a rope with different strands, so as to increase its strength.

To multiply or increase too much; to repeat too often.

A party formed in 1891, advocating in an increase of the currency, public ownership and operation of railroads, telegraphs, etc., an income tax, limitation in ownership of land, etc.

convexo-concave lenses with a considerable curvature corresponding to that of the eye, to increase the distinctness of objects viewed obliquely.

the altered cells may grow into complete plants with changed properties, as for example, increased resistance to disease. .

erated by the action of the current. It is chiefly due to the hydrogen, and results in an increase of the resistance, and the setting up of an opposing electro-motive force, both of which tend materially to weaken the current of the battery, or that passing through the cell.

To cause polymerization of; to produce polymers from; to increase the molecular weight of, without changing the atomic proportions; thus, certain acids polymerize aldehyde.

To furnish with inhabitants, either by natural increase or by immigration or colonization; to cause to be inhabited; to people.

of an adjective or adverb which denotes simple quality, without comparison or relation to increase or diminution; as, wise, noble. -- Positive electricity (Elec), the kind of electricity which is developed when glass is rubbed with silk, or which appears at that pole of a voltaic battery attached to the plate that is…

Causing, or giving rise to, pressure or to an increase of pressure; as, pressor nerve fibers, stimulation of which excites the vasomotor center, thus causing a stronger contraction of the arteries and consequently an increase of the arterial blood pressure; -- opposed to depressor. Landois & Stirling.…

ishing results; as, productive soil; productive enterprises; productive labor, that which increases the number or amount of products.

In the growth of an animal or plant; increase.

Regular or proportional advance in increase or decrease of numbers; continued proportion, arithmetical, geometrical, or harmonic.