[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["the act or process of multiplying multiply the state of being multiplied . multiply .", "Arithmetic.a mathematical operation, symbolized bya×b, a ? b, a ? b,orab,and signifying, whenaandbare positive integers, thatais to be added to itself as many times as there are units inb;the addition of a number to itself as often as is indicated by another number, as in 2×3 or 5×10.", "Mathematics.any generalization of this operation applicable to numbers other than integers, as fractions or irrational numbers."]}]