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See also: Times and timés

English

Etymology

Multiplication sense from the idea that something is repeated or added together a given number of times.

Pronunciation

Noun

times

  1. plural of time
    It's been ten times more difficult than expected.

times pl (plural only)

  1. The circumstances of a certain time.
    Modern times are so very different from the past.
    • 1976, Jan Fontein, Wu Tang, “Eastern Han Tomb near Holingol, Inner Mongolia”, in Han and T’ang Murals discovered in tombs in the People's Republic of China and copied by contemporary Chinese painters‎, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 38, column 2:
      The city called Fan-yang in Eastern Han times can be identified with the present village of Ch’u-wang (Nei-huang County, Honan Province).
    • 2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:
      From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.
  2. A person's experiences or biography.
    The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter.

Derived terms

Preposition

times

  1. (mathematics) Multiplied by (see also 'ratio of comparison' sense at 'time').
    Four times five is/are twenty
    (= Four fives are twenty).
    One times one is one.

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Derived terms

Translations

Verb

times

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of time

Verb

times (third-person singular simple present timeses, present participle timesing, simple past and past participle timesed)

  1. (informal, arithmetic) To multiply.
    • 1994, Harvey Mellar, Learning with artificial worlds: computer-based modelling in the curriculum:
      I've taken the calories and the amount of food . . . and it's 410 calories per portion timesed by 6 portions which [sic] the answer was 2460 calories...
    • 1995, Mathematical Association, The Australian mathematics teacher, Volumes 51-53:
      A student as junior as Year 4 informed me that he made a forward estimate of cheeses in 100 trials by 'timesing both numbers by 10' […]
    • 1998, Psychology of mathematics education, Volume 2:
      Alex: Yeah - if you're timesing that distance there by this height, it will disappear.
    • 1998, W. M. Roth, Designing Communities, Kluwer Academic Publishers, page 31:
      […] when the denominator was timesed by three, the same had to be done to the numerator; and so on.
    • 2017 December 15, Ruby Lott-Lavigna, “I Spent a Day Eating at the Most Instagrammable Restaurants of 2017”, in VICE‎:
      Well, take that feeling, and times it by a thousand and you can probably understand the sheer disgust aimed at me by my fellow diners at Palm Vaults.

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Danish

Noun

times c

  1. indefinite genitive singular of time

Latin

Verb

timēs

  1. second-person singular present active indicative of timeō

Portuguese

Noun

times

  1. plural of time

Spanish

Verb

times

  1. second-person singular present subjunctive of timar

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