MULTIPLICITY | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of multiplicity in English

(Definition of multiplicity from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of multiplicity

multiplicity
We reduce (a) the multiplicity of parties to four party 'families' and (b) the diversity of the party systems to three types.
However, it does show a representation of solutions that allows us to manipulate constant, infinite and negative multiplicities explicitly.
The authors see language acquisition as part of "an elegant tapestry of multiplicity" (p. 87).
The new feature is the multiplicity of macroeconomic equilibria.
This paper takes the normative view and addresses the multiplicity of equilibria as a problem for models of time-consistent monetary policy.
The threshold model encourages an appreciation of the individualistic risk factors and the usual multiplicity of etiology, particularly in palliative care patients.
It invites a multiplicity of readings because of its lack of hints for a specific understanding of the exhibits.
Through the developments of science and technology, noise has taken on a multiplicity of meanings with varying degrees of concreteness.
Although moral values and social obligation motivate older volunteers slightly more than other age groups, motivational multiplicity and reciprocity also apply to older volunteers.
Such multiplicity of explanations (reflecting multiple paths of development) would, however, undermine neither the basic approach nor the underlying assumptions of the present analysis.
It is necessary because it introduces order into what might otherwise look like a chaotic multiplicity of motions.
These nexuses are maintained through time by a multiplicity of ritual acts leaving analyzable material residue.
Antiquities as signs and icons of the new religion are re-contextualised within the national framework and acquire a multiplicity of social lives.
On the other hand, this abstraction becomes productive only in an ordering of the multiplicity of that which has already been experienced and processed.
The order of the zero coincides with the algebraic multiplicity of the eigenvalue.
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Translations of multiplicity

in Chinese (Traditional)
多種多樣,多樣性…
in Chinese (Simplified)
多种多样,多样性…
in Spanish
multiplicidad…
in Portuguese
multiplicity…
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