times

times

See also: Times and timés

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, Canada, US) enPR: tīmz, IPA^(key): /taɪmz/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /tɑemz/
• (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this pronunciation?) (Tasmanian) IPA^(key): /tɜːmz/
• Rhymes: -aɪmz

Noun

times

1. plural of time

times pl (plural only)

1. The circumstances of a certain time.

   Modern times are so very different from the past.

   • 2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:

     From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.

2. A person's experiences or biography.

   The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter.

Derived terms

• at the best of times
• fast times
• good times
• keep up with the times
• sign of the times
• straitened times
• Times
• times fixed charges
• times-interest-earned ratio

 

Preposition

times

1. (mathematics) multiplied by

   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: فِي‎ (ar) (fī) Egyptian Arabic: في‎ (fi) Armenian: Old Armenian: -իցս (-icʿs) Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܓܵܗܹ̈ܐ‎ (gāhē) Basque: bider Czech: krát Dutch: keer (nl), maal (nl) Estonian: korda Finnish: kertaa (fi) French: fois (fr) German: mal (de) Greek: επί (el) (epí) Hungarian: -szor, -szer, -ször Icelandic: sinnum Ido: per (io) Indonesian: kali (id) Irish: faoi Italian: per (it) Japanese: 掛ける (ja) (かける, kakeru) Javanese: ping (jv) Khmer: គុណ (km) (kun), ដង (km) (dɑɑng) Korean: 곱하기 (ko) (gophagi) Macedonian: по (po) Malay: darab (ms), kali (ms) Mandarin: 乘以 (chéngyǐ) Navajo: ahą́ą́h nániilyá Norwegian: Bokmål: ganger (no) Old Javanese: piṅ Polish: razy (pl) Portuguese: vezes (pt) Russian: на (ru) (na) Spanish: por (es) Swedish: gånger (sv) Tagalog: maka (tl), paramihin ng Thai: คูณ (th) (kuun) Turkish: kere (tr) Yiddish: מאָל‎ (mol)

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.

   • 1998, W. M. Roth, Designing Communities, Kluwer Academic Publishers, p.31

     […] when the denominator was timesed by three, the same had to be done to the numerator; and so on.

Anagrams

• METIs, MSTie, Metis, Métis, STEMI, e-stim, emits, i-stem, items, metis, mites, métis, setim, smite, stime

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Danish

Noun

times c

1. indefinite genitive singular of time

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Latin

Verb

timēs

1. second-person singular present active indicative of timeō

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Portuguese

Noun

times

1. plural of time

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Spanish

Verb

times

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of timar