times

See also Times

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /taɪmz/, X-SAMPA: /taImz/

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• Rhymes: -aɪmz

Noun

times pl

1. Plural form of time
2. The circumstances of a certain time.

   Modern times are so very different from the past.

3. A person's experiences or biography.

   The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter

Derived terms

• good times
• straitened times
• times fixed charges
• times-interest-earned ratio
• Times

Preposition

times

1. Product of the previous number and the following number.

   Four times five is twenty.

   One times one is one.

Derived terms

• times-or-divided-by
• times sign
• times table

Related terms

• × (the multiplication sign)

Translations

multiplied by

• Arabic: أوقات، مواقيت
• Czech: krát (cs)
• Dutch: keer (nl), maal (nl)
• Estonian: korda (et)
• Finnish: kertaa (fi)
• French: fois (fr)
• German: mal (de)
• Greek: επί (el) (epí)
• Hungarian: -szor (hu), -szer (hu), -ször (hu)
• Icelandic: sinnum (is)
• Italian: per (it)

• Japanese: 掛ける (かける, kakeru)
• Korean: 곱하기 (ko) (gophagi)
• Malay: darab (ms)
• Mandarin: 乘以 (cmn) (chéngyǐ)
• Norwegian: ganger (no)
• Polish: razy
• Russian: на (ru) (na)
• Spanish: por (es)
• Swedish: gånger (sv)

Verb

times

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form 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.

Statistics

• Most common English words before 1923: four · wish · gone · #333: times · girl · during · several

Anagrams

• emits, i-stem, items, Metis, Métis, metis, mites, smite

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Danish

Noun

times c

1. genitive singular indefinite of time

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Latin

Verb

timēs

1. second-person singular present active indicative of timeō
   1. "you fear"
   2. "you are afraid"

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Spanish

Verb

times (infinitive timar)

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) negative imperative form of timar.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) present subjunctive form of timar.