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noun

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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Origin of multiplication table

First recorded in 1665–75

Words nearby multiplication table

multipliable, multiplicand, multiplicate, multiplication, multiplication sign, multiplication table, multiplicative, multiplicative group, multiplicative identity, multiplicative inverse, multiplicity

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How to use multiplication table in a sentence

How many of the most important affairs of life can be demonstrated by means of the multiplication table?
Gospel Philosophy|J. H. Ward
The majority of you no doubt know what the multiplication-table is, and I am sure you have thought it a pretty disagreeable thing.
Fifty-Two Story Talks To Boys And Girls|Howard J. Chidley
The captain is an ambitious ass, he couldn't think his way through a multiplication table.
Derelict|Alan Edward Nourse
He did not use the book, and did not need to; he knew his Shakespeare as well as Euclid ever knew his multiplication table.
Is Shakespeare Dead?|Mark Twain

Whether the habit is some fundamental moral habit or the multiplication table, be consistent, do not vacillate.
The Science of Human Nature|William Henry Pyle

British Dictionary definitions for multiplication table

multiplication table

noun

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

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