Manifold

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  • adjective. Many and varied; of many kinds; multiple.
  • adjective. Having many features or forms.
  • adjective. Being such for a variety of reasons.
  • adjective. Consisting of or operating several devices of one kind at the same time.
  • noun. A whole composed of diverse elements.
  • noun. One of several copies.
  • noun. A pipe or chamber having multiple apertures for making connections.
  • noun. A topological space in which each point has a neighborhood that is equivalent to a neighborhood in Euclidean space. The surface of a sphere is a two-dimensional manifold because the neighborhood of each point is equivalent to a part of the plane.
  • transitive verb. To make several copies of, as with carbon paper.
  • transitive verb. To make manifold; multiply.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To make manifold; multiply; specifically, to multiply impressions of by a single operation, as a letter by means of a manifold-writer, or by the use of carbon-paper in a type-writer.
  • noun. In mathematics, given a general conception capable of various determinations or determination-modes, the totality of the determinable particulars is a manifold, of which each is an element. The manifold is continuous or discrete, according as the passage from one determination to another is continuous or discrete.
  • noun. Same as manifold-valve.
  • Many times; in multiplied number or quantity.
  • noun. The third stomach of a ruminant; the manyplies; the intestines generally.
  • Of many kinds; numerous in kind or variety; varied; diverse.
  • Exhibiting or embracing many points, features, or characteristics; complicated in character; having many parts or relations: used with nouns in the singular number: as, the manifold wisdom or the manifold grace of God (Eph. iii. 10; 1 Pet. iv. 10); “the manifold use of friendship,”
  • noun. A complicated object or subject; that which consists of many and various parts; specifically, an aggregate of particulars or units; especially, in mathematics, a multitude of objects connected by a system of relations; an ensemble.
  • noun. In Kant's theory of knowledge, the total of the particulars furnished by sense before they are connected by the synthesis of the understanding; that which is in the sense and has not yet been in thought.
  • noun. A copy or facsimile made by means of a manifold-writer, or by the use of carbon-paper in a type-writer, etc.
  • noun. A tube, usually of cast metal, with one or more flanged or screw-threaded inlets and two or more flanged or screw-threaded outlets for pipe-connections, much used in pipe-fitting for steam-heating coils, or for cooling-coils in breweries, and in other cases where it is useful to convey steam, water, or air from a large pipe into several smaller ones. Also called T-branch and header.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To take copies of by the process of manifold writing.
  • noun. A copy of a writing made by the manifold process.
  • noun. A cylindrical pipe fitting, having a number of lateral outlets, for connecting one pipe with several others.
  • noun. The third stomach of a ruminant animal.
  • adjective. Various in kind or quality; many in number; numerous; multiplied; complicated.
  • adjective. Exhibited at divers times or in various ways; -- used to qualify nouns in the singular number.
  • adjective. a process or method by which several copies, as of a letter, are simultaneously made, sheets of coloring paper being infolded with thin sheets of plain paper upon which the marks made by a stylus or a type-writer are transferred; writing several copies of a document at once by use of carbon paper or the like.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To make manifold; multiply.
  • verb. To multiply or reproduce impressions of by a single operation.
  • noun. A copy made by the manifold writing process.
  • noun. A pipe fitting or similar device that connects multiple inputs or outputs.
  • noun. The third stomach of a ruminant animal, an omasum.
  • noun. A topological space that looks locally like the "ordinary" Euclidean space and is Hausdorff.
  • adjective. Various in kind or quality; many in number; numerous; multiplied; complicated; diverse.
  • adjective. Exhibited at diverse times or in various ways.
  • adverb. Many times; repeatedly.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. combine or increase by multiplication
  • verb. make multiple copies of
  • noun. a pipe that has several lateral outlets to or from other pipes
  • noun. a lightweight paper used with carbon paper to make multiple copies
  • adjective. many and varied; having many features or forms
  • noun. a set of points such as those of a closed surface or an analogue in three or more dimensions
  • Word Usage
    "Some informal background: a Riemannian manifold is a differentiable manifold (where the tangent space at each point has an inner product) with a positive-definite metric tensor, d (x, y) ≥ 0."
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