times

See also Times

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /taɪmz/, 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) 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) 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, 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.