manifold
UK /ˈmænɪˌfəʊld/ · US /ˈmænɪˌfoʊld/ adjective, adverb, noun, verb, proper noun
Forms manifolds manifolding manifolded manyfold
- adjective Various in kind, quality, or manifestation; diverse. “The manifold meanings of the English word set are infamous among lexicographers.”
- adjective Many in number; numerous.
- adjective Complicated.
- adverb Many times; repeatedly.
- noun (historical) A copy made by the manifold writing process.
- noun (mechanics) A pipe fitting or similar device that connects multiple inputs and outputs.
- noun (US, dialectal, chiefly in the plural) The third stomach of a ruminant animal, an omasum.
- noun (mathematics) A Hausdorff topological space that looks locally like the "ordinary" Euclidean space ℝⁿ.
- noun (computer graphics) A polygon mesh representing the continuous, closed surface of a solid object
- verb (transitive) To make manifold; multiply.
- verb (transitive, printing) To multiply or reproduce impressions of by a single operation.
- proper noun A surname.
- proper noun An unincorporated community in Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States.
- proper noun A river in Staffordshire, England, a tributary of the River Dove; in full, the River Manifold.
Synonyms
diverse multiple various varied multiplicitous numerous countless legion eighty-eleven eleventeen eleventy feelefold fifty-eleven forty-eleven many manyfold morefold multiplicate multiplied ninety-eleven manifold paper multiply multiplex
Antonyms
Etymology
From Middle English manifold, from Old English maniġfeald (“manifold, various, varied, complicated, numerous, abundant, plural”), from Proto-Germanic *managafalþaz, equivalent to many + -fold. Cognate with Middle High German manecvalt (“manifold”), Icelandic margfaldr (“multiple”). Compare also German mannigfaltig (“various”), Dutch menigvoudig (“various”), Danish mangefold (“multiple”), Swedish mångfald (“diversity”).
From Middle English manifolden, from Old English maniġfealdan (“to multiply, abound, increase, extend, reward”), equivalent to many + -fold. Cognate with Middle High German manecvalten, Icelandic margfalda (“to multiply”), Swedish mångfaldiga (“to manifold, reproduce”).
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Webster’s 1913
- 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. "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.
- 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.
Etymology [AS. manigfeald. See Many, and Fold.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “manifold”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details