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say it: MUHL-tuh-puhl
multiple is a noun and adjective meaning "the product of a quantity by an integer". It carries 2 recorded senses.
having or involving or consisting of more than one part or entity or individual
“multiple birth”
“multiple ownership”
“made multiple copies of the speech”
“his multiple achievements in public life”
“her multiple personalities”
“a pineapple is a multiple fruit”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for multiple come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.