The act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production.

synonyms: generation, propagation.

Roget 168: productiveness etc. adj.; fecundity, fertility, luxuriance, uberty^†.    pregnancy, pullulation, fructification, multiplication, propagation, procreation; superfetation.    milch cow, rabbit, hydra, warren, seed plot, land flowing with milk and honey; second crop, aftermath; aftercrop, aftergrowth^†; arrish^†, eddish^†, rowen^†; protoplasm; fertilization.    ... show more

Roget 163: reproduction, renovation; restoration etc. 660; renewal; new edition, reprint, revival, regeneration, palingenesis^†, revivification; apotheosis; resuscitation, reanimation, resurrection, reappearance; regrowth; Phoenix.    generation etc. (production) 161; multiplication.    ... show more

Roget 85: numeration; numbering etc. v.; pagination; tale, recension^†, enumeration, summation, reckoning, computation, supputation^†; calculation, calculus; algorithm, algorism^†, rhabdology^†, dactylonomy^†; measurement etc. 466; statistics.    arithmetic, analysis, algebra, geometry, analytical geometry, fluxions^†; differential calculus, integral calculus, infinitesimal calculus; calculus of differences.    [Statistics] dead reckoning, muster, poll, census, capitation, roll call, recapitulation; account etc. (list) 86.    [Operations] notation, , addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, rule of three, practice, equations, extraction of roots, reduction, involution, evolution, estimation, approximation, interpolation, differentiation, integration.    [Instruments] abacus, logometer^†, slide rule, slipstick [Coll.], tallies, Napier's bones, calculating machine, difference engine, suan-pan^†; adding machine; cash register; electronic calculator, calculator, computer; [people who calculate] arithmetician, calculator, abacist^†, algebraist, mathematician; statistician, geometer; programmer; accountant, auditor.    ... show more

Roget 102: multitude; numerous etc. adj.; numerosity, numerality; multiplicity; profusion etc. (plenty) 639; legion, host; great number, large number, round number, enormous number; a quantity, numbers, array, sight, army, sea, galaxy; scores, peck, bushel, shoal, swarm, draught, bevy, cloud, flock, herd, drove, flight, covey, hive, brood, litter, farrow, fry, nest; crowd etc. (assemblage) 72; lots; all in the world and his wife.    [Increase of number] greater number, majority; multiplication, multiple.    ... show more

Polish: propagacja

A multiplicative increase.

Polish: multiplikacja, multyplikacja

An arithmetic operation that is the inverse of division; the product of two numbers is computed:
— The multiplication of four by three gives twelve.

synonym: times.

Dutch: vermenigvuldiging, vermenigvuldigen
Polish: mnożenie