The phrase "ability to multiply" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's mathematical skills or capabilities, particularly in the context of performing multiplication.
Example: "Her ability to multiply large numbers in her head impressed everyone during the math competition."
Alternatives: "skill in multiplication" or "capacity for multiplication".
The virulence of the plague bacillus that is, its ability to multiply in the tissues of its host and cause death is remarkably stable and vigorous.
He had been a standout student who had the ability to multiply large numbers in his head, could speak three languages fluently and graduated from high school at age 15, after skipping several grades.
Each of us has aberrant cells developing all the time, but it takes about four or five specific mutations -- including an ability to multiply without the normal preprogrammed brake of cell death and to travel and colonize in far-flung reaches of the body -- for a cell to graduate to full-fledged cancer.
In what a fellow physicist described as a "very vain, very inappropriate" talk delivered on the 80th birthday of Murray Gell-Mann, a Nobel laureate in physics, Frampton veered into autobiography, recounting how his ability to multiply numbers in his head at 4 led him to see himself as "cleverer than Newton".
The threat lies in its ability to multiply at enormous speed.
Concerns related to immunological compatibility, ability to multiply cells in vitro before transfer, and general issues of quality control and safety now appear surmountable.
These genes confer the organism broader capacities to cope with the oxidative stresses and may necessarily contribute to the abilities to multiply inside the host cells (e.g. macrophage cells), and further the virulence of the bacterium.
The invasive properties of TEs include their abilities to multiply within one genome and to spread within the population.
Because of their ability to efficiently multiply chirality, even on an industrial level, these catalysts promise to exert a general impact on molecular science and engineering.
That is why we determined the frequency of contaminated surface disinfectant solutions in reusable dispensers, the ability of isolates to multiply in different formulations and their ability to form biofilms.
As such, six chinchillas (two cohorts of three each) were used to assess the outcome of cSPLUNC1 knock down on the ability of NTHI to multiply and survive in the middle ear.
