multiplication table

American  

noun

1. Arithmetic. a tabular listing of the products of any two numbers of a set, usually of the integers 1 through 10 or 1 through 12.

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multiplication table British  

noun

1. one of a group of tables giving the results of multiplying two numbers together

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Etymology

Origin of multiplication table

First recorded in 1665–75

Example Sentences

“I just kept searching for an idea that would be far beyond the multiplication table and got the idea that three is the magical number,” Dorough told the Los Angeles Times in 1997.

From Washington Post • Jan. 28, 2023

They’re going to have to turn it around in their head if they don’t have the multiplication table memorized.

From Scientific American • Apr. 28, 2022

Games at Mexico City’s enormous Estadio Azteca — where visiting fans are caged in fencing, ostensibly for their own protection — can inspire fans to break out a multiplication table to describe its appeal:

From New York Times • Oct. 9, 2021

Near the start of grade school, Minab remembers his father giving him a multiplication table worksheet and expected him to learn it in a week.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 2, 2020

Even those of us whose mouths moved when we were reading our own names knew the multiplication table up through times twelve.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck