The difference between Divide and Multiply

When used as nouns, divide means a thing that divides, whereas multiply means an act or instance of multiplying.

When used as verbs, divide means to split or separate (something) into two or more parts, whereas multiply means to increase the amount, degree or number of (something).

Multiply is also adverb with the meaning: in many or multiple ways.

check bellow for the other definitions of Divide and Multiply

  1. Divide as a verb (transitive):

    To split or separate (something) into two or more parts.

    Examples:

    "a wall divides two houses; a stream divides the towns"

  2. Divide as a verb (transitive):

    To share (something) by dividing it.

    Examples:

    "How shall we divide this pie?"

  3. Divide as a verb (transitive, arithmetic):

    To calculate the number (the quotient) by which you must multiply one given number (the divisor) to produce a second given number (the dividend).

    Examples:

    "If you divide 6 by 3, you get 2."

  4. Divide as a verb (transitive, arithmetic):

    To be a divisor of.

    Examples:

    "3 divides 6."

  5. Divide as a verb (intransitive):

    To separate into two or more parts.

  6. Divide as a verb (intransitive, biology):

    Of a cell, to reproduce by dividing.

  7. Divide as a verb:

    To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.

  8. Divide as a verb (obsolete):

    To break friendship; to fall out.

  9. Divide as a verb (obsolete):

    To have a share; to partake.

  10. Divide as a verb:

    To vote, as in the British Parliament, by the members separating themselves into two parties (as on opposite sides of the hall or in opposite lobbies), that is, the ayes dividing from the noes.

  11. Divide as a verb:

    To mark divisions on; to graduate.

    Examples:

    "to divide a sextant"

  12. Divide as a verb (music):

    To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Spenser"

  1. Divide as a noun:

    A thing that divides.

    Examples:

    "Stay on your side of the divide, please."

  2. Divide as a noun:

    An act of dividing.

    Examples:

    "The divide left most of the good land on my share of the property."

  3. Divide as a noun:

    A distancing between two people or things.

    Examples:

    "There is a great divide between us."

  4. Divide as a noun (geography):

    A large chasm, gorge, or ravine between two areas of land.

    Examples:

    "If you're heading to the coast, you'll have to cross the divide first."

    "The team crossed streams and jumped across deep, narrow divides in the glacier.'' [[File:The team crossed streams and jumped across deep, narrow divides in the glacier.ogg]]"

  1. Multiply as a verb (transitive):

    To increase the amount, degree or number of (something).

  2. Multiply as a verb (transitive, arithmetic):

    To perform multiplication on (a number).

    Examples:

    "when you multiply 3 by 7, you get 21; he multiplied several numbers"

  3. Multiply as a verb (intransitive):

    To grow in number.

  4. Multiply as a verb (intransitive):

    To breed or propagate.

  5. Multiply as a verb (intransitive, arithmetic):

    To perform multiplication.

    Examples:

    "He had been multiplying, but it occurred to him he needed to resolve the exponents, first."

  6. Multiply as a verb (transitive, rare):

    To be a factor in a multiplication with (another factor).

  1. Multiply as a noun (computer science):

    An act or instance of multiplying.

  1. Multiply as an adverb:

    In many or multiple ways.

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