Manifold

[man-uh-fohld] /ˈmæn əˌfoʊld/

adjective
1.
of many kinds; numerous and varied:
manifold duties.
2.
having numerous different parts, elements, features, forms, etc.:
a manifold program for social reform.
3.
using, functioning with, or operating several similar or identical devices at the same time.
4.
(of paper business forms) made up of a number of sheets interleaved with carbon paper.
5.
being such or so designated for many reasons:
a manifold enemy.
noun
6.
something having many different parts or features.
7.
a copy or facsimile, as of something written, such as is made by manifolding.
8.
any thin, inexpensive paper for making carbon copies on a typewriter.
9.
Machinery. a chamber having several outlets through which a liquid or gas is distributed or gathered.
10.
Philosophy. (in Kantian epistemology) the totality of discrete items of experience as presented to the mind; the constituents of a sensory experience.
11.
Mathematics. a topological space that is connected and locally Euclidean.
Compare .
verb (used with object)
12.
to make copies of, as with carbon paper.
/ˈmænɪˌfəʊld/
adjective (formal)
1.
of several different kinds; multiple: manifold reasons
2.
having many different forms, features, or elements: manifold breeds of dog
noun
3.
something having many varied parts, forms, or features
4.
a copy of a page, book, etc
5.
a chamber or pipe with a number of inlets or outlets used to collect or distribute a fluid. In an internal-combustion engine the inlet manifold carries the vaporized fuel from the carburettor to the inlet ports and the exhaust manifold carries the exhaust gases away
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(maths)

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(in the philosophy of Kant) the totality of the separate elements of sensation which are then organized by the active mind and conceptualized as a perception of an external object
verb
8.
(transitive) to duplicate (a page, book, etc)
9.
to make manifold; multiply
adj.

Old English monigfald (Anglian), manigfeald (West Saxon), “various, varied in appearance, complicated; numerous, abundant,” from manig (see many) + -feald (see -fold). A common Germanic compound (cf. Old Frisian manichfald, Middle Dutch menichvout, German mannigfalt, Swedish mångfalt, Gothic managfalþs), perhaps a loan-translation of Latin multiplex (see multiply). Retains the original pronunciation of many. Old English also had a verbal form, manigfealdian “to multiply, abound, increase, extend.”
adv.

Old English manigfealdlic “in various ways, manifoldly,” from the source of manifold (adj.).
n.

in mechanical sense, first as “pipe or chamber with several outlets,” 1884, see manifold (adj.); originally as manifold pipe (1857), with reference to a type of musical instrument mentioned in the Old Testament.
manifold
(mān’ə-fōld’)
A topological space or surface.