[man-uh-fohld] 
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 12. | to make copies of, as with carbon paper. |
| 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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