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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

{Law of multiple proportion} (Chem.), the generalization that
when the same elements unite in more than one proportion,
forming two or more different compounds, the higher
proportions of the elements in such compounds are simple
multiplies of the lowest proportion, or the proportions
are connected by some simple common factor; thus, iron and
oxygen unite in the proportions {FeO}, {Fe2O3}, {Fe3O4},
in which compounds, considering the oxygen, 3 and 4 are
simple multiplies of 1. Called also the {Law of Dalton},
from its discoverer.

{Multiple algebra}, a branch of advanced mathematics that
treats of operations upon units compounded of two or more
unlike units.

{Multiple conjugation} (Biol.), a coalescence of many cells
(as where an indefinite number of am[oe]boid cells flow
together into a single mass) from which conjugation proper
and even fertilization may have been evolved.

{Multiple fruits}. (Bot.) See {Collective fruit}, under
{Collective}.

{Multiple star} (Astron.), several stars in close proximity,
which appear to form a single system.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Note:

{A common multiple} of two or more numbers contains each of
them a number of times exactly; thus, 24 is a common
multiple of 3 and 4. The

{least common multiple} is the least number that will do
this; thus, 12 is the least common multiple of 3 and 4.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Note: Parts of a system so arranged are said to be in
parallel or in multiple.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

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