See multiplicity in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for multiplicity meaning in English (11.0kB)
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "geometric multiplicity"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "multiplicitas"
},
"expansion": "Latin multiplicitas",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Latin multiplicitas.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "multiplicities",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "~"
},
"expansion": "multiplicity (countable and uncountable, plural multiplicities)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "cardinality"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "29 7 3 31 16 14",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "23 8 3 26 22 17",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"parents": [
"Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2017, Francis Chia-Hui Lin, Architectural Theorisations and Phenomena in Asia, page 194",
"text": "Without consideration of the colony character of Malaysia in terms of its consistent interculturation with imperial and neoimperial power, multiplicity can easily be mistheorised as representing Saidian Orientalism or expatriates—such theorisations can be drawn from superficial reinterpretations of Taiwan's Tenryuubito phenomenon in recent years and Japan's Datsu-A Ron statement during the Meiji period.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The state of being made of multiple diverse elements."
],
"id": "en-multiplicity-en-noun-Pe3le~oZ",
"links": [
[
"state",
"state"
],
[
"multiple",
"multiple"
],
[
"diverse",
"diverse"
],
[
"element",
"element"
]
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "82 3 1 5 3 6",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "the state of being made of multiple diverse elements",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "multiplicité"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 3 1 5 3 6",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "the state of being made of multiple diverse elements",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Multiplizität"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 3 1 5 3 6",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "pollaplótita",
"sense": "the state of being made of multiple diverse elements",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "πολλαπλότητα"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 3 1 5 3 6",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "the state of being made of multiple diverse elements",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "molteplicità"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 3 1 5 3 6",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "the state of being made of multiple diverse elements",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "multiplicitas"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 3 1 5 3 6",
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"sense": "the state of being made of multiple diverse elements",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "yl-raght"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 3 1 5 3 6",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "the state of being made of multiple diverse elements",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "multiplicidade"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 3 1 5 3 6",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "the state of being made of multiple diverse elements",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "multiplicitate"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 3 1 5 3 6",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "the state of being made of multiple diverse elements",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "multiplicidad"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 3 1 5 3 6",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "the state of being made of multiple diverse elements",
"word": "mångfald"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 3 1 5 3 6",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "the state of being made of multiple diverse elements",
"word": "multiplicitet"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Mathematics",
"orig": "en:Mathematics",
"parents": [
"Formal sciences",
"Sciences",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The number of values for which a given condition holds."
],
"id": "en-multiplicity-en-noun-op4WNB6D",
"links": [
[
"mathematics",
"mathematics"
],
[
"value",
"value"
],
[
"condition",
"condition"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(mathematics) The number of values for which a given condition holds."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"mathematics",
"sciences"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "3 42 2 25 23 5",
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"sense": "mathematics: the number of values for which a given condition holds",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "רִבּוּי"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 42 2 25 23 5",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "mathematics: the number of values for which a given condition holds",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "molteplicità"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 42 2 25 23 5",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "mathematics: the number of values for which a given condition holds",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "multiplicidad"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1659, John Pearson, “Article IV”, in An Exposition of the Creed, 5th edition, published 1683, page 189",
"text": "The coronary Thorns did not only express the scorn of the imposers, by that figure into which they were contrived; but did also pierce his tender and sacred temples to a multiplicity of pains, by their numerous acuminations.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1962 December, “Dr. Beeching previews the plan for British Railways”, in Modern Railways, page 377",
"text": "They saddled themselves with the handling of light flows on a multiplicity of branch lines, and they sacrificed the speed, reliability and low cost of through train operation, even over the main arteries of the system.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A large indeterminate number."
],
"id": "en-multiplicity-en-noun-ANgRdntz",
"links": [
[
"indeterminate",
"indeterminate"
],
[
"number",
"number"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "1 5 81 6 4 1",
"sense": "large indeterminate number",
"word": "buttload"
}
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "1 5 84 5 4 1",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "a large indeterminate number",
"word": "multiplicité"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 5 84 5 4 1",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "plíthos",
"sense": "a large indeterminate number",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "πλήθος"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 5 84 5 4 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "a large indeterminate number",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "molteplicità"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 5 84 5 4 1",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a large indeterminate number",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "multiplicidad"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Software engineering",
"orig": "en:Software engineering",
"parents": [
"Computer science",
"Engineering",
"Software",
"Computing",
"Sciences",
"Applied sciences",
"Technology",
"Media",
"All topics",
"Communication",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "29 7 3 31 16 14",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "23 8 3 26 22 17",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"parents": [
"Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The number of instances that can occur on a given end of a relationship, including 0..1, 1, 0..* or *, and 1..*."
],
"id": "en-multiplicity-en-noun-jhtbzGIm",
"links": [
[
"software engineering",
"software engineering"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(software engineering, UML) The number of instances that can occur on a given end of a relationship, including 0..1, 1, 0..* or *, and 1..*."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"computing",
"engineering",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"sciences",
"software"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Statistical mechanics",
"orig": "en:Statistical mechanics",
"parents": [
"Mechanics",
"Physics",
"Sciences",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "29 7 3 31 16 14",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "23 8 3 26 22 17",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"parents": [
"Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1999, Ralph Baierlein, Thermal Physics, Cambridge University Press, page 329",
"text": "In short , we are not replacing the old idea that “entropy is the logarithm of the multiplicity (times Boltzmann's constant). ” Rather , we are retaining that idea but are generalizing the notion of multiplicity.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1988, G. Erickson, C.R. Smith, Maximum-Entropy and Bayesian Methods in Science and Engineering: Volume 2: Applications, Springer Science & Business Media, page 357",
"text": "... the maximum-entropy (maxent) solution is the one which occurs with greatest multiplicity.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The number of microstates associated with a given macrostate."
],
"id": "en-multiplicity-en-noun-08ElC2G~",
"links": [
[
"statistical mechanics",
"statistical mechanics"
],
[
"microstate",
"microstate"
],
[
"macrostate",
"macrostate"
]
],
"qualifier": "statistical mechanics",
"raw_glosses": [
"(statistical mechanics) The number of microstates associated with a given macrostate."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Psychology",
"orig": "en:Psychology",
"parents": [
"Social sciences",
"Sciences",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "29 7 3 31 16 14",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "23 8 3 26 22 17",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"parents": [
"Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "17 7 2 17 11 46",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Multiplicity (psychology)",
"orig": "en:Multiplicity (psychology)",
"parents": [
"Psychology",
"Social sciences",
"Sciences",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The condition of a single body/person displaying multiple distinct personas."
],
"id": "en-multiplicity-en-noun-rNJdJRFH",
"links": [
[
"psychology",
"psychology"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(psychology) The condition of a single body/person displaying multiple distinct personas."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "24 17 3 9 5 42",
"sense": "condition of multiple personas in one body",
"word": "plurality"
}
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"psychology",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"raw_tags": [
"of being made of multiple elements"
],
"topics": [
"state"
],
"word": "manifoldness"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "manyness"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "deal"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "load"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lot"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"multiplicity"
],
"word": "multiplicity"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms derived from Latin",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Requests for review of Vietnamese translations",
"en:Multiplicity (psychology)"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "geometric multiplicity"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "multiplicitas"
},
"expansion": "Latin multiplicitas",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Latin multiplicitas.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "multiplicities",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "~"
},
"expansion": "multiplicity (countable and uncountable, plural multiplicities)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "cardinality"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2017, Francis Chia-Hui Lin, Architectural Theorisations and Phenomena in Asia, page 194",
"text": "Without consideration of the colony character of Malaysia in terms of its consistent interculturation with imperial and neoimperial power, multiplicity can easily be mistheorised as representing Saidian Orientalism or expatriates—such theorisations can be drawn from superficial reinterpretations of Taiwan's Tenryuubito phenomenon in recent years and Japan's Datsu-A Ron statement during the Meiji period.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The state of being made of multiple diverse elements."
],
"links": [
[
"state",
"state"
],
[
"multiple",
"multiple"
],
[
"diverse",
"diverse"
],
[
"element",
"element"
]
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Mathematics"
],
"glosses": [
"The number of values for which a given condition holds."
],
"links": [
[
"mathematics",
"mathematics"
],
[
"value",
"value"
],
[
"condition",
"condition"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(mathematics) The number of values for which a given condition holds."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"mathematics",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1659, John Pearson, “Article IV”, in An Exposition of the Creed, 5th edition, published 1683, page 189",
"text": "The coronary Thorns did not only express the scorn of the imposers, by that figure into which they were contrived; but did also pierce his tender and sacred temples to a multiplicity of pains, by their numerous acuminations.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1962 December, “Dr. Beeching previews the plan for British Railways”, in Modern Railways, page 377",
"text": "They saddled themselves with the handling of light flows on a multiplicity of branch lines, and they sacrificed the speed, reliability and low cost of through train operation, even over the main arteries of the system.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A large indeterminate number."
],
"links": [
[
"indeterminate",
"indeterminate"
],
[
"number",
"number"
]
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Software engineering"
],
"glosses": [
"The number of instances that can occur on a given end of a relationship, including 0..1, 1, 0..* or *, and 1..*."
],
"links": [
[
"software engineering",
"software engineering"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(software engineering, UML) The number of instances that can occur on a given end of a relationship, including 0..1, 1, 0..* or *, and 1..*."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"computing",
"engineering",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"sciences",
"software"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Statistical mechanics"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1999, Ralph Baierlein, Thermal Physics, Cambridge University Press, page 329",
"text": "In short , we are not replacing the old idea that “entropy is the logarithm of the multiplicity (times Boltzmann's constant). ” Rather , we are retaining that idea but are generalizing the notion of multiplicity.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1988, G. Erickson, C.R. Smith, Maximum-Entropy and Bayesian Methods in Science and Engineering: Volume 2: Applications, Springer Science & Business Media, page 357",
"text": "... the maximum-entropy (maxent) solution is the one which occurs with greatest multiplicity.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The number of microstates associated with a given macrostate."
],
"links": [
[
"statistical mechanics",
"statistical mechanics"
],
[
"microstate",
"microstate"
],
[
"macrostate",
"macrostate"
]
],
"qualifier": "statistical mechanics",
"raw_glosses": [
"(statistical mechanics) The number of microstates associated with a given macrostate."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Psychology"
],
"glosses": [
"The condition of a single body/person displaying multiple distinct personas."
],
"links": [
[
"psychology",
"psychology"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(psychology) The condition of a single body/person displaying multiple distinct personas."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"psychology",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"raw_tags": [
"of being made of multiple elements"
],
"topics": [
"state"
],
"word": "manifoldness"
},
{
"word": "manyness"
},
{
"sense": "large indeterminate number",
"word": "buttload"
},
{
"word": "deal"
},
{
"word": "load"
},
{
"word": "lot"
},
{
"sense": "condition of multiple personas in one body",
"word": "plurality"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "the state of being made of multiple diverse elements",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "multiplicité"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "the state of being made of multiple diverse elements",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Multiplizität"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "pollaplótita",
"sense": "the state of being made of multiple diverse elements",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "πολλαπλότητα"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "the state of being made of multiple diverse elements",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "molteplicità"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "the state of being made of multiple diverse elements",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "multiplicitas"
},
{
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"sense": "the state of being made of multiple diverse elements",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "yl-raght"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "the state of being made of multiple diverse elements",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "multiplicidade"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "the state of being made of multiple diverse elements",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "multiplicitate"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "the state of being made of multiple diverse elements",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "multiplicidad"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "the state of being made of multiple diverse elements",
"word": "mångfald"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "the state of being made of multiple diverse elements",
"word": "multiplicitet"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"sense": "mathematics: the number of values for which a given condition holds",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "רִבּוּי"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "mathematics: the number of values for which a given condition holds",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "molteplicità"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "mathematics: the number of values for which a given condition holds",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "multiplicidad"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "a large indeterminate number",
"word": "multiplicité"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "plíthos",
"sense": "a large indeterminate number",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "πλήθος"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "a large indeterminate number",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "molteplicità"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a large indeterminate number",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "multiplicidad"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"multiplicity"
],
"word": "multiplicity"
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: software engineering, UML",
"path": [
"multiplicity"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "multiplicity",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: software engineering, UML",
"path": [
"multiplicity"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "multiplicity",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "page/1412",
"msg": "gloss may contain unhandled list items: The number of instances that can occur on a given end of a relationship, including 0..1, 1, 0..* or *, and 1..*.",
"path": [
"multiplicity"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "multiplicity",
"trace": ""
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.