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man⋅i⋅fold
[man-uh-fohld] 
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 locally Euclidean space. |
–verb (used with object)
| 12. | to make copies of, as with carbon paper. |
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| man·i·fold (mān'ə-fōld') adj.
[Middle English, from Old English manigfeald : manig, many; see many + -feald, -fald, -fold.] man'i·fold'ly adv., man'i·fold'ness n. |
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Manifold
Man"i*fold\, a. [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.Manifold
Man"i*fold\, n. 1. A copy of a writing made by the manifold process. 2. (Mech.) A cylindrical pipe fitting, having a number of lateral outlets, for connecting one pipe with several others. 3. pl. The third stomach of a ruminant animal. [Local, U.S.]Manifold
Man"i*fold\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Manifolded; p. pr. & vb. n. Manifolding.] To take copies of by the process of manifold writing; as, to manifold a letter.
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manifold
O.E. monigfald (Anglian), manigfeald (W.Saxon), "varied in appearance," from manig "many" + -feald "fold." A common Gmc. compound (cf. O.Fris. manichfald, M.Du. menichvout, Swed. mångfalt, Goth. managfalþs), perhaps a loan-translation of L. multiplex (see multiply). Retains the original pronunciation of many. The noun in the mechanical sense of "pipe or chamber with several outlets" is from 1884; originally as manifold pipe (1857), in ref. to a type of musical instrument mentioned in the O.T.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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| manifold (mān'ə-fōld') Pronunciation Key
A topological space or surface. |
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