资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Multiple \Mul"ti*ple\, n. (Math.)
   A quantity containing another quantity a number of times
   without a remainder.

   Note:

   {A common multiple} of two or more numbers contains each of
      them a number of times exactly; thus, 24 is a common
      multiple of 3 and 4. The

   {least common multiple} is the least number that will do
      this; thus, 12 is the least common multiple of 3 and 4.