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Word definitions for manifold in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
thumb|Industrial manifold A manifold is a wide and/or bigger pipe, or channel, into which smaller pipes or channels lead. Types of manifolds in engineering include: Exhaust manifold , an engine part which collects the exhaust gases from multiple cylinders ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Manifold \Man"i*fold\, n. A copy of a writing made by the manifold process. (Mech.) A cylindrical pipe fitting, having a number of lateral outlets, for connecting one pipe with several others; as, the exhaust manifold of an automobile engine. pl. The third ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English manigfealdlic "in various ways, manifoldly," from the source of manifold (adj.).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 1 various in kind or quality, diverse 2 many in number, numerous; multiple, multiplied. 3 complicated. 4 exhibit at diverse times or in various ways. adv. Many times; repeatedly. n. 1 (context now historical English) A copy made by the manifold ...
Usage examples of manifold.
However, Professor Schleiermacher was a specimen of that noble type of scientific men to whom gold was merely the rare metal Au, and diamonds merely the element C in the scarcest of its manifold allotropic embodiments.
Sinbad came ashore there and had manifold adventures, and numberless wrecks bestrewed the sands.
A master horologe, whose duty it was to determine the intime of returning pilots according to complicated formulae weighting Einsteinian time distortions against the unpredictable deformations of the manifold, had told me that Soli had aged one hundred and three years this last journey and would have died but for the skills of the Lord Cetic.
Thus with his brain full of manifold and multiform thoughts of the past did Cormac mac Art sit and wallow in days gone by, and avoid thereby thinking of the present and future.
He had eye and thought only for the tremendous panorama passing before him, where everything was clear and visible, as if it were an act in some old Roman circus, magnified manifold.
Being-with-Unity it would be a manifold, whereas in the pure Unity there is no Being save in so far as Unity attends to producing it.
No one could tell me how they had once piloted their deep ships and scurfed the windows of the manifold because no one remembered.
All, in so far as, departing from that perfect Singleness which can be measured by no other Singleness, it became, to a certain extent, manifold, though still Absolute and Perfect.
The big Avenger slanted down, the wind noise increasing in pitch and volume, and Phillips with his left hand, not looking, retrimmed it for the power glide and occasionally pulled the throttle back slightly to keep the manifold pressure from building up.
When a pilot returns from the manifold years older or younger than his lover, as Soli recently had, the differential aging-we call it crueltime-can destroy them.
In one of them, just before Soli destroyed them, Bardo and Justine opened a window to the manifold and fled the battle.
Here the reference of a theologoumenon to a passage of Scripture was of itself sufficient, and the manifold and incongruous doctrines were felt as a unity in so far as they could all be verified from Holy Scriptures.
For, notwithstanding the manifold reasons he had to expect a happy issue to his aim, his imagination was incessantly infected with something that chilled his nerves and saddened his heart, recurring, with quick succession, like the unwearied wave that beats upon the bleak, inhospitable Greenland shore.
Each was a potent bacteriacide but in combination their action was multiplied manifold.
Little in mathematics beyond the elementary level of calculus of variations, and nothing at all about Banach algebra or Riemannian manifolds.