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times
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prep
1
Multiplied by.
"Four times five equals twenty."
verb
1
To multiply.
"Time the two numbers together to get the total."
name
1
Used as part of the name of many newspapers, most famously The Times.
"She read about it in The New York Times."
How to Use Times
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishUsed in maths to mean "multiplied by", and also the plural of "time".
Word Forms
timesed past tense, timeses singular
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Etymology
The multiplication sense comes from the idea of repeating something a given number of "times".