Lexic.us

Definition of Manifold

1. Adjective. Many and varied; having many features or forms. "The multiplex opportunities in high technology"

2. Verb. Make multiple copies of. "Multiply a letter"

3. Noun. A pipe that has several lateral outlets to or from other pipes.

4. Verb. Combine or increase by multiplication. "Their earnings manifold this year"; "He managed to multiply his profits"

5. Noun. A lightweight paper used with carbon paper to make multiple copies. "An original and two manifolds"

6. Noun. A set of points such as those of a closed surface or an analogue in three or more dimensions.

Definition of Manifold

1. a. Various in kind or quality; many in number; numerous; multiplied; complicated.

2. n. A copy of a writing made by the manifold process.

3. v. t. To take copies of by the process of manifold writing; as, to manifold a letter.

Definition of Manifold

1. Noun. (context: now historical) A copy made by the manifold writing process. ¹

2. Noun. (mechanics) A pipe fitting or similar device that connects multiple inputs or outputs. ¹

3. Noun. (US regional plural) The third stomach of a ruminant animal, an omasum. ¹

4. Noun. (mathematics) A topological space that looks locally like the "ordinary" Euclidean space $\backslash mathbb\{R\}^n$ and is Hausdorff. ¹

5. Adjective. Various in kind or quality; many in number; numerous; multiplied; complicated; diverse. ¹

6. Adjective. Exhibited at diverse times or in various ways. ¹

7. Adverb. Many times; repeatedly. ¹

8. Verb. (transitive) To make manifold; multiply. ¹

9. Verb. (transitive printing) To multiply or reproduce impressions of by a single operation. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Manifold

1. to make several copies of [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Manifold

1. 1. A copy of a writing made by the manifold process. 2. A cylindrical pipe fitting, having a number of lateral outlets, for connecting one pipe with several others. 3. The third stomach of a ruminant animal. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Manifold

manifesters manifesteth manifestible manifesting manifesting carrier manifesting heterozygote manifestly manifestness manifesto manifestoed

manifestoes manifestoing manifestolike manifestos manifests manifold (current term) manifold paper manifolded manifolding manifoldly

manifoldness manifoldnesses manifolds maniform manihoc manihocs manihots manikin manikins manila maguey

Literary usage of Manifold

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant (1901)
"OJ the Possibility of a Conjunction of the manifold Representations given by Sense The manifold content in our representations can be given in an intuition ..."

2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"manifold fugue, a fugue with more than one subject Then, and then only, do we say that we know an object, if we have produced synthetical unity iu the ..."

3. A Treatise on Universal Algebra: With Applications by Alfred North Whitehead (1898)
"But the following identity holds Accordingly P does not represent a product of elements of the original manifold unless Thus only the elements lying on a ..."

4. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1843)
"NOTE ON THE CONDITIONS FOR A p-CYCLE OF AN ALGEBRAIC manifold TO BE OF RANK k BY W.-VD HODGE Received 23 January 1947 Let Vm be an irreducible algebraic ..."

5. An Introduction to the Theory of Statistics by George Udny Yule (1919)
"The general principle of a manifold classification—2-4. ... The general theory of such a manifold as distinct from a twofold or dichotomous classification, ..."

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