self-multiplying
- a word derived from multiply.
Example Sentences
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In a series that is built on doubles, on multiple selves, on simulacra that take over, Lynch is also self-multiplying, splitting off the analyst from the fantasist, the thinker from the creator.
From The New Yorker • May 30, 2017
Perhaps we might retain Darwin's self-multiplying gemmules without supposing them to be thrown off by the cells, which will no longer be credited with two modes of multiplication.
From Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin by Ball, W. P. (William Platt)
If it is left to itself, the office will become technical, self-absorbed, self-multiplying.
From The English Constitution by Bagehot, Walter
Many obvious facts compelled Darwin to suppose that vast numbers of the reproductive gemmules in an individual are not thrown off by his own cells, but are the self-multiplying progeny of ancestral gemmules.
From Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin by Ball, W. P. (William Platt)
It's transmitted through genes, which are dominant, cumulative, and self-multiplying by interaction.
From The Galaxy Primes by Smith, E. E. (Edward Elmer)
