common multiple

English

Noun

common multiple (plural common multiples)

1. (mathematics) A number which may be divided by any of a given set of numbers without a remainder.

   120 and all its multiples are common multiples of 60, 8 and 15.

Related terms

• least common multiple

Translations

in math

Finnish: yhteinen jaettava Hungarian: közös többszörös (hu) Icelandic: samfeldi n, sameiginlegt margfeldi n Italian: multiplo comune m Korean: 공배수 (gongbaesu) Maori: taurea pātahi Polish: wspólna wielokrotność f Romanian: multiplu comun (ro) m

See also

• common divisor

References

• “common multiple”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.