manifold, multiplex
(adjective) many and varied; having many features or forms; âmanifold reasonsâ; âour manifold failingsâ; âmanifold intelligenceâ; âthe multiplex opportunities in high technologyâ
manifold
(noun) a pipe that has several lateral outlets to or from other pipes
manifold
(noun) a set of points such as those of a closed surface or an analogue in three or more dimensions
multiply, manifold
(verb) combine or increase by multiplication; âHe managed to multiply his profitsâ
manifold
(verb) make multiple copies of; âmultiply a letterâ
Source: WordNet® 3.1
manifold (comparative more manifold, superlative most manifold)
Various in kind or quality; diverse.
Many in number, numerous; multiple, multiplied.
Complicated.
Exhibited at diverse times or in various ways.
• (various in kind or quality): diverse, various, varied, multiplicitous; See also heterogeneous
• (many in number): multiple, numerous; see also manifold
• onefold
• singlefold
manifold (comparative more manifold, superlative most manifold)
Many times; repeatedly.
• frequently, ofttimes; see also often
manifold (plural manifolds)
(historical) A copy made by the manifold writing process.
(mechanics) A pipe fitting or similar device that connects multiple inputs or outputs.
(US, regional, mostly, in the plural) The third stomach of a ruminant animal, an omasum.
(mathematics) A topological space that looks locally like the "ordinary" Euclidean space and is Hausdorff.
(computer graphics) A polygon mesh representing the continuous, closed surface of a solid object
In mathematics, a manifold of some number of dimensions n is termed an n-manifold (e.g. 3-manifold).
((mathematics) generic families of manifolds):
• Flag manifold
• Grassmann manifold
• Stiefel manifold
((mathematics) manifolds definable by a particular choice of atlas):
• analytic manifold
• complex manifold
• differentiable manifold
• piecewise linear manifold
• smooth manifold
• topological manifold
((mathematics) manifolds Manifolds with additional structure):
• almost complex manifold
• almost symplectic manifold
• CalabiâYau manifold
• calibrated manifold
• complex manifold
• contact manifold
• CR manifold
• Finsler manifold
• Hermitian manifold
• HyperkĂ€hler manifold
• KĂ€hler manifold
• Lie group
• pseudo-Riemannian manifold
• Riemannian manifold
• Sasakian manifold
• semi-Riemannian manifold
• spin manifold
• symplectic manifold
((mathematics) infinite-dimensional manifolds):
• Banach manifold
• FrĂ©chet manifold
• Hilbert manifold
((mathematics) other manifolds):
• Ck-manifold
• Câ-manifold
• CÏ-manifold
• connected manifold
• E8 manifold
• Einstein manifold
• Finsler manifold
• G2 manifold
• Kervaire manifold
• Lorentzian manifold
• manifold with boundary
• n-dimensional manifold
• n-manifold
• non-Hausdorff manifold
• non-smoothable manifold
• pure manifold
• Quaternionic KĂ€hler manifold
• real manifold
• Ricci-flat manifold
• Spin(7) manifold
• submanifold
• Weeks manifold
• Whitehead manifold
manifold (third-person singular simple present manifolds, present participle manifolding, simple past and past participle manifolded)
(transitive) To make manifold; multiply.
(transitive, printing) To multiply or reproduce impressions of by a single operation.
Source: Wiktionary
Man"i*fold, a. Etym: [AS. manigfeald. See Many, and Fold.]
1. Various in kind or quality; many in number; numerous; multiplied; complicated. O Lord, how manifold are thy works! Ps. civ. 24. I know your manifold transgressions. Amos v. 12.
2. Exhibited at divers times or in various ways; -- used to qualify nouns in the singular number. "The manifold wisdom of God." Eph. iii. 10. "The manifold grace of God." 1 Pet. iv. 10. Manifold writing, 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.
Man"i*fold, n.
1. A copy of a writing made by the manifold process.
2. (Mech.)
Definition: A cylindrical pipe fitting, having a number of lateral outlets, for connecting one pipe with several others.
3. pl.
Definition: The third stomach of a ruminant animal. [Local, U.S.]
Man"i*fold, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Manifolded; p. pr. & vb. n. Manifolding.]
Definition: To take copies of by the process of manifold writing; as, to manifold a letter.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
6 January 2025
(adverb) (of childbirth) before the end of the normal period of gestation; âthe child was born prematurelyâ
International Coffee Day (September 29) is an occasion to promote and celebrate coffee as a beverage, with events occurring in places across the world. A day to promote fair trade coffee and raise awareness for the coffee growersâ plight. Other countries celebrate this event on October 1.
