How to Use multiplicative in a Sentence

multiplicative

adjective

• Look at both the number of ways to factor the first three perfect numbers, as well as the small number in each of those multiplicative examples.
  — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 24 June 2021
• This is sort of the most important example of a multiplicative function.
  — Quanta Magazine, 20 July 2017
• One exploding head makes for great television, but the effect is not multiplicative: A roomful of exploding heads is just a mess.
  — Jason Kehe, Wired, 16 Oct. 2020
• Put more generally, the conjecture says that the additive and multiplicative properties of a set of numbers somehow force each other to behave in a certain way.
  — Quanta Magazine, 6 Feb. 2019
• And Taleb teaches us not to equate thin-tailed events that affect individuals (people drowning in their bathtubs) with multiplicative risks, like Ebola epidemics, that can have a systemic impact.
  — Glenn C. Altschuler, Philly.com, 26 Mar. 2018
• The dazzling array of new products means that innovation is multiplicative and not additive for economic growth.
  — Philip Cross, National Review, 30 Dec. 2020
• Since that stimulus has multiplicative effects on businesses and total output, the AHCA slashes state outputs by amounts far greater than the amount of federal funds divested.
  — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 17 June 2017
• Despite the generational gap, the affinity between Aretha Franklin and Jennifer Hudson is multiplicative.
  — Rodney Ho, ajc, 11 Aug. 2021
• Moreover, the distributions often appeared to be what’s called lognormal, which can happen, for example, when the numbers being plotted are the result of multiplicative processes rather than additive ones.
  — Quanta Magazine, 1 Mar. 2018
• Such interventions work together in a synergistic way and the benefits are multiplicative.
  — John Drake, Forbes, 21 May 2021
• Education has so many multiplicative impacts on a student’s life, ensuring that every single student gets a quality education is critical to community and long-term recovery.
  — oregonlive, 12 May 2020
• February also saw the announcement that the unit conjecture is false, meaning that multiplicative inverses actually exist in more complicated structures than mathematicians thought.
  — Quanta Magazine, 23 Dec. 2021
• Within a broad family of algebraic structures, which elements have multiplicative inverses?
  — Quanta Magazine, 12 Apr. 2021

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