times
See also Times
English
Pronunciation
Noun
times pl
- Plural form of time
- The circumstances of a certain time.
- Modern times are so very different from the past.
- 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
- 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
Verb
times
- 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)
- (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.
- 1994, Harvey Mellar, Learning with artificial worlds: computer-based modelling in the curriculum