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A quantity containing another quantity a number of times without a remainder.

The process of repeating, or adding to itself, any given number or quantity a certain number of times; commonly, the process of ascertaining by a briefer computation the result of such repeated additions; also, the rule by which the operation is performed; -- the reverse of division.

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

in poisonous doses, produces stupor, coma, or convulsions, and, when given in sufficient quantity, causes death. The best examples are opium (with morphine), belladonna (with atropine), and conium. Nercotykes and opye (opium) of Thebes. Chaucer.

ts upon a white ground, any given line being produced by a variation in the proportionate quantity of the primary colors employed. This method is also known as Pointillism (stippling).

e system of figures, letters, and signs used in arithmetic and algebra to express number, quantity, or operations.

Quantity, regarded as made up of an aggregate of separate things.

An immense expanse; any vast space or quantity without apparent limits; as, the boundless ocean of eternity; an ocean of affairs. Locke.

Denoting part of an aggregate or whole; belonging to a number or quantity mentioned; out of; from amongst; as, of this little he had some to spare; some of the mines were unproductive; most of the company. It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed. Lam. iii. 22. It is a duty to communicate of those blessings…

The symbol, quantity, or thing upon which a mathematical operation is performed; -- called also faciend.

An alkaloid found in small quantity in opium. It is identical with narcotine.

tion between two propositions when, having the same subject and predicate, they differ in quantity, or in quality, or in both; or between two propositions which have the same matter but a different form.

The amount of coal or ore put out from one or more mines, or the quantity of material produced by, or turned out from, one or more furnaces or mills, in a given time.

The furthest limit, as to number, quantity, extent, etc.; the utmost; as, it may last a week at the outside.

Beyond a limit; hence, in excessive degree or quantity; superfluously; with repetition; as, to do the whole work over. "So over violent." Dryden. He that gathered much had nothing over. Ex. xvi. 18.

That which remains after a supply, or beyond a quantity proposed; surplus. Shak. "The overplus of a great fortune." Addison.

A sum or quantity over; surplus. [Obs.] Holinshed.

Work in excess of the usual or stipulated time or quantity; extra work; also, excessive labor.

The measurement or determination of the quantity of ozone.

The quantity that a pail will hold. "By pailfuls." Shak.