Manifold Definition

mănə-fōld
manifolds
adjective
Having many and various forms, features, parts, etc.
Manifold wisdom.
Webster's New World
Of many sorts; many and varied; multifarious.
Manifold duties.
Webster's New World
Being such in many and various ways or for many reasons.
A manifold villain.
Webster's New World
Comprising, consisting of, or operating several units or parts of one kind.
Webster's New World

Complicated.

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noun
manifolds
Something that is manifold.
Webster's New World
A whole composed of diverse elements.
American Heritage
One of several copies.
American Heritage
A pipe with one inlet and several outlets or with one outlet and several inlets, for connecting with other pipes, specif., as in an automobile, for conducting exhausts from each cylinder into a single exhaust pipe.
Webster's New World
A topological space in which each point has a neighborhood that is equivalent to a neighborhood in Euclidean space. The surface of a sphere is a two-dimensional manifold because the neighborhood of each point is equivalent to a part of the plane.
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  • manifold paper
verb
manifolds
To make more than one copy of.
To manifold a letter with carbon paper.
Webster's New World
To make manifold; multiply.
Webster's New World

(printing) To multiply or reproduce impressions of by a single operation.

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adverb

Many times; repeatedly.

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Other Word Forms of Manifold

Noun

Singular:
manifold
Plural:
manifolds

Origin of Manifold

  • From Middle English, from Old English maniÄ¡feald (“manifold, various, varied, complicated, numerous, abundant, plural"), from Proto-Germanic *managaz (“many") + *-falþaz (“-fold"), equivalent to many +"Ž -fold. Cognate with Middle High German manecvalt (“manifold"), Icelandic margfaldr (“multiple"). Compare also German mannigfaltig (“various"), Dutch menigvoudig (“various"), Danish mangfoldig (“diverse"), Swedish mÃ¥ngfaldig (“multiple, manifold, diverse").

    From Wiktionary

  • From Middle English manifolden, from Old English maniÄ¡fealdan (“to multiply, abound, increase, extend, reward"), equivalent to many +"Ž -fold. Cognate with Middle High German manecvalten, Icelandic margfalda (“to multiply"), Swedish mÃ¥ngfaldiga (“to manifold, reproduce").

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old English manigfeald manig many many -feald, -fald -fold

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Manifold Sentence Examples

  • The services required of landowners were very manifold in character.

  • The numerous Letters of Cyprian are not only an important source for the history of church life and of ecclesiastical law, on account of their rich and manifold contents, but in large part they are important monuments of the literary activity of their author, since, not infrequently, they are in the form of treatises upon the topic in question.

  • Valentin Weigel (1533-1588), who stands under manifold obligations to Franck, represents also the influence of the semi-mystical physical speculation that marked the transition from scholasticism to modern times.

  • In response to the exceeding diversity of habitat and of the conditions of life, the parasites exhibit manifold and widely-different types of form, organization and life-history.

  • In spite of these manifold activities Mamun did not forget the hereditary enemy of Islam.

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