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Adjective
/ˈmanəˌfōld/,
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Many and various,
  1. Many and various
    • - the implications of this decision were manifold
  2. Having many different forms or elements
    • - the appeal of the crusade was manifold
Noun
  1. A pipe or chamber branching into several openings
    • - the pipeline manifold
  2. (in an internal combustion engine) The part conveying air and fuel from the carburetor to the cylinders or that leading from the cylinders to the exhaust pipe
    • - the exhaust manifold
  3. Something with many different parts or forms, in particular

  4. A collection of points forming a certain kind of set, such as those of a topologically closed surface or an analog of this in three or more dimensions

  5. (in Kantian philosophy) The sum of the particulars furnished by sense before they have been unified by the synthesis of the understanding

  1. many and varied; having many features or forms; "manifold reasons"; "our manifold failings"; "manifold intelligence"; "the multiplex opportunities in high technology"
  2. make multiple copies of; "multiply a letter"
  3. a pipe that has several lateral outlets to or from other pipes
  4. manifold paper: a lightweight paper used with carbon paper to make multiple copies; "an original and two manifolds"
  5. a set of points such as those of a closed surface or an analogue in three or more dimensions
  6. In mathematics, more specifically in differential geometry and topology, a manifold is a mathematical space that on a small enough scale resembles the Euclidean space of a specific dimension, called the dimension of the manifold. ...
  7. In automotive engineering, an intake manifold or inlet manifold is the part of an engine that supplies the fuel/air mixture to the cylinders. An exhaust manifold or header collects the exhaust gases from multiple cylinders into one pipe. ...
  8. A manifold, in systems for moving fluids or gases is a junction of pipes or channels, typically bringing one into many or many into one.
  9. Manifold was a mathematical magazine published at the University of Warwick. Its philosophy was "It is possible to be serious about mathematics, without being solemn." Its best known editor was the mathematician Ian Stewart who edited the magazine in the late 1960s.
  10. In scuba diving a manifold is used to connect two diving cylinders (tanks) with breathing gas, providing a greater amount of gas for longer dive times and greater safety due to redundancy. Diving with two or more cylinders is associated with technical diving.
  11. A copy made by the manifold writing process; A pipe fitting or similar device that connects multiple inputs or outputs; The third stomach of a ruminant animal, an omasum; A topological space that looks locally like the "ordinary" Euclidean space and is Hausdorff; To make manifold; multiply; ...
  12. The branch pipe arrangement that connects several input pipes into one chamber or one chamber into several output pipes. A filter manifold connects several input pipes from the filter septa back into one common pipe.
  13. A fitting that connects a number of branches to the main; serves as a distribution point.
  14. A piping arrangement which permits a stream of liquid or gas to be divided into two or more streams, or which permits several streams to be collected into one.
  15. A system of pipes that link the cylinders to an inlet or outlet source.
  16. A part of the neon pumping system; the manifold is a system of vacuum-tight tubing arranged so that one or more tubes can be attached to it, evacuated with a vacuum system, and filled with rare gases.
  17. A component designed to collect and/or distribute an engine's air and/or fuel mixture, or exhaust.
  18. a filter assembly containing multiple ports and integral relating components which services more than one fluid circuit.
  19. A paper form made up of a number of sheets interleaved with carbon paper.
  20. A large pipe to which a series of smaller pipes are connected.
  21. A thin strong, uncoated paper used for business forms and documents, where low bulk is required.
  22. A fundamental mathematical object which locally resembles a line, a plane, or space (is locally homeomorphic to a vector space). For example, a sphere or a doughnut, the playing field of the video game Asteroids, and (in the theory of general relativity) physical space are all manifolds. ...
  23. (adj.) diverse, varied (The popularity of Dante’s Inferno is partly due to the fact that the work allows for manifold interpretations.)
  24. A multiple header for connecting several cylinders to one or more torch supply lines.
  25. a section of steel pipeline that diverts flow from a single penstock into several smaller penstocks that feed multiple turbine-generator units.