multiple

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1.Having more than one element, part, component, or function, having more than one instance, occurring more than once, usually contrary to expectations (can be followed by a singular).
- It was a multiple pregnancy: the woman had triplets.
- Some states do explicitly prohibit multiple citizenship.
- Multiple registrations are an increasing problem for many social networking sites.

1.More than one (followed by plural).
- My Swiss Army knife has multiple blades.
- A study Kennedy discussed on multiple podcast episodes exposed male African clawed frogs to atrazine in a lab, castrating 75% of the male frogs and turning one in 10 males into females.

1.A whole number that is obtained by multiplying a specific whole number by another whole number.
2.Price-earnings ratio.
3.One of a set of the same thing; a duplicate.
- One might view this attempt to ensure the scarcity of a multiple as both a marketing ploy and form of elitism.
4.A single individual who displays or experiences multiple personalities or selves.
- I had seen its first show when it was a freebie, but I thought it made multiples in general look silly – no one changes clothes THAT much!
- Non-abused multiples have no need of doctors, and they have carved out a foothold of their own from where they speak confidently about their utopian vision of a multiple world.