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adv. - In a manner that tends to or has the power to increase in number or quantity or degree .

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  • The errors increased multiplicatively
  • This can be expressed multiplicatively by saying that we have seen three times as many red draws as black draws, which is just to say that O (Red) = 3.
  • Fitness components differ from variation components in that they affect population frequencies proportionally to those frequencies, that is to say, multiplicatively.
  • "Rather than interacting additively, these different affects appear to interact multiplicatively, with feedbacks among the contributing factors, leading to the...
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