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

That’s because even though ChatGPT has likely analyzed plenty of math textbooks, no one has given it an infinitely large multiplication table.

From Scientific American • May 25, 2023

“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

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

If you derive a quaternion multiplication table from the fundamental formula Hamilton carved into Broome Bridge, you’ll find that ij = k, but ji = -k.

From Slate • Oct. 14, 2016

I could do the multiplication table through ten and read and write simple sentences by the age of four as a result of all those long nights working with her.

From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals