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manifold

adj
/ˈmænɪˌfoʊld/US/ˈmænɪˌfəʊld/UK

Etymology

From Middle English manifold, from Old English maniġfeald (“manifold, various, varied, complicated, numerous, abundant, plural”), from Proto-Germanic *managafalþaz, equivalent to many + -fold. Cognate with Middle High German manecvalt (“manifold”), Icelandic margfaldr (“multiple”). Compare also German mannigfaltig (“various”), Dutch menigvoudig (“various”), Danish mangefold (“multiple”), Swedish mångfald (“diversity”).

  1. inherited from *managafalþaz✻
  2. inherited from maniġfeald — “manifold, various, varied, complicated, numerous, abundant, plural”
  3. inherited from manifold

Definitions

  1. Various in kind, quality, or manifestation

    Various in kind, quality, or manifestation; diverse.

    • The manifold meanings of the English word set are infamous among lexicographers.
    • [E]ch man as he receyuede grace, mynistringe ‘it in to ech other, as goode dispenderes of the manyfolde grace of God.
    • To the intent that now vnto the principalities and powers in heauenly places, might be knowen by the church, the manifold wisedome of God, […]

  2. Many in number

    Many in number; numerous.

  3. Complicated.

  4. ›+ 11 more definitions

    1. Many times

      Many times; repeatedly.

      • when his daughter deare he does behold, / Her dearely doth imbrace, and kisseth manifold.
      • It was found necessary to clear the entire piers from the mass of onlookers, or else the fatalities of the night would have been increased manifold.

    2. A copy made by the manifold writing process.

    3. A pipe fitting or similar device that connects multiple inputs and outputs.

    4. The third stomach of a ruminant animal, an omasum.

      • My conjecture being right he will find the third stomach, or manifolds, the seat of difficulty.

    5. A Hausdorff topological space that looks locally like the "ordinary" Euclidean space ℝⁿ.

    6. A polygon mesh representing the continuous, closed surface of a solid object

    7. To make manifold

      To make manifold; multiply.

    8. To multiply or reproduce impressions of by a single operation.

    9. A surname.

    10. An unincorporated community in Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States.

    11. A river in Staffordshire, England, a tributary of the River Dove

      A river in Staffordshire, England, a tributary of the River Dove; in full, the River Manifold.

The neighborhood

Derived

Manifold Heights, manifolder, manifoldly, manifoldness, blackfold, Calabi-Yau manifold, chain of manifolds, conifold, continuous manifoldness, discontinuous manifoldness, inlet manifold, intake manifold, manifold writer, manifold writing, maniverter, micromanifold, neuromanifold, nilmanifold, non-manifold, nonmanifold, orbifold, pseudomanifold, solvmanifold, supermanifold

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at manifold. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at manifold. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at manifold

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA