manifold
IPA: mˈænʌfoʊɫd
noun
- (historical) A copy made by the manifold writing process.
- (mechanics) A pipe fitting or similar device that connects multiple inputs or outputs.
- (US, dialectal, chiefly in the plural) The third stomach of a ruminant animal, an omasum.
- (mathematics) A topological space that looks locally like the "ordinary" Euclidean space ℝⁿ and is Hausdorff.
- (computer graphics) A polygon mesh representing the continuous, closed surface of a solid object
- A surname.
- An unincorporated community in Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States.
- The River Manifold, a river in Staffordshire, England, a tributary of the River Dove.
verb
- (transitive) To make manifold; multiply.
- (transitive, printing) To multiply or reproduce impressions of by a single operation.
adjective
- Various in kind or quality; diverse.
- Many in number, numerous; multiple, multiplied.
- Complicated.
- Exhibited at diverse times or in various ways.
adverb
- Many times; repeatedly.
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Examples of "manifold" in Sentences
- The cushion is stored within the manifold.
- The advantages of the dynamic maps are manifold.
- The form of the beautiful is unity of the manifold.
- The ramifications of the war were various and manifold.
- The constriction occurs at the throttle structure in the manifold.
- The completion gives a hyperbolic structure on the entire manifold.
- The network is itself the purpose, and the possible uses are manifold.
- The invention comprehends the combination of the insert and a manifold.
- Each manifold is the virtual manifestation of your own private paradise.
- The assumptions on the manifolds are given in the first chapter of the book.
- An outlet in the top of the container connects to the engine intake manifold.
- In my sleep I slew them in manifold ways and threw their carcasses into the reservoir.
- They are cultural hybrids, to be sure, combining indigenous traditions with Christian theology in manifold ways.
- Then she took her lute and, preluding thereon in manifold modes, lastly returned to the first and sang these couplets,
- The Lorentzian manifold is a pseudo-Riemannian manifold, the generalization of the Riemannian manifold, such that the metric tensor need not be positive-definite.
- 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.
- A familiar Riemannian manifold is a Euclidean manifold (where one has to add a smoothly varying inner product on the tangent space of the standard Euclidean space), with the familiar Euclidean (distance) metric (our 3-space, for example).