Times

Pronunciation

• IPA: /taɪmz/
• Rhymes: -aɪmz

Noun

noun

1. Plural of time
2. The circumstances of a certain time.
• 2013-06-08, The new masters and commanders, From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.
3. Modern times are so very different from the past.
4. A person's experiences or biography.
   The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter

Derived terms

• good times
• keep up with the times
• straitened times
• times fixed charges
• times-interest-earned ratio
• Times

Full definition of times

Preposition

1. Product of the previous number and the following number.Four times five is twenty.One times one is one.

Derived terms

• times-or-divided-by
• times sign
• times table

Related terms

• × (the multiplication sign)

Verb

1. times

   (third-person singular of time)

Verb

1. (informal, arithmetic) To multiply.
• 1994, Harvey Mellar, Learning with artificial worlds: computer-based modelling in the curriculumI've taken the calories and the amount of food . . . and it's 410 calories per portion timesed by 6 portions which the answer was 2460 calories...
• 1995, Mathematical Association, The Australian mathematics teacher, Volumes 51-53A student as junior as Year 4 informed me that he made a forward estimate of cheeses in 100 trials by 'timesing both numbers by 10'...
• 1998, Psychology of mathematics education, Volume 2Alex: Yeah - if you're timesing that distance there by this height, it will disappear.

Anagrams

• emits, i-stem, items, Metis, Métis, metis, mites, smite