{
  "id": "multiple.quantity",
  "term": "multiple",
  "sense": "quantity",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 8,
  "arena": "general",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "more than one thing",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "further.degree",
      "quantity.numerical"
    ],
    "interaction": "the quantity is more than one",
    "novel_properties": [
      "plurality",
      "greater-than-one"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station requires multiple resupply missions each year to sustain its crew and operations.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "E. coli bacteria reproduce by binary fission, yielding multiple cells from a single parent in under 20 minutes.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2008 financial crisis revealed multiple failing mortgage-backed securities across global banking systems.",
      "domain": "economics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "quantity.numerical",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "a kind of numerical quantity"
    },
    {
      "id": "single.quantity",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "opposite of a single quantity"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "multiple",
    "multiples"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-multiple.quantity"
}