Does "multiple" mean no more than "more than one" or is it better used to connote division, duplication, or repetition?

Today "multiple" is widely used as a synonym for "many," fancy jargon, in my opinion, to say "more than one."

Is there any support for a more precise meaning or connotation to stand instead for the repetition or multiplication of an element of a whole?

Oxford, cited below, defines the word as "having or involving several parts, elements, or members," consistent with this sense of the word. At the threads below, we see that Merriam-Webster comes and and says "multiple" means "consisting of, including, or involving more than one." The examples M-W gives reflect a sense of parts of a whole or duplicates: "multiple births" and "multiple choice."

Many people use "multiple" in multiple contexts, so this is hard to search! ELU threads here and here come at multiple in different ways, but neither addresses my question.