Definition of Manifold

Manifold

Various in kind or quality; many in number; numerous; multiplied; complicated.

Exhibited at divers times or in various ways; -- used to qualify nouns in the singular number.

A copy of a writing made by the manifold process.

A cylindrical pipe fitting, having a number of lateral outlets, for connecting one pipe with several others.

The third stomach of a ruminant animal.

To take copies of by the process of manifold writing; as, to manifold a letter.

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Manifold Quotations

The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.
Aeschylus

The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole.
Felix Adler

Being a doctor has taught me a lot about directing. You're doing the same thing: You're reconstructing the manifold of behavior to the point where an audience says, yes, that's exactly like people I know.
Jonathan Miller

This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which has become familiar, that of protoplasm.
Asa Gray

Something similar is still true of the courses followed by manifold intuitions which together make up the unity of one continuous consciousness of one and the same object.
Edmund Husserl

But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system.
Henry Mayhew

Instead of a few hundreds of thousands of men meeting each other in war, millions would now meet, and modern weapons would multiply manifold the power of destruction.
Edward Grey

Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of the earth is multiform.
Matt LeBlanc

Manifold subsequent experience has led to a truer appreciation and a more moderate estimate of the importance of the dependence of one living being upon another.
Richard Owen

I think most of us sense that it is a responsibility of the humanities to try to help better the conduct of human beings in their lives and manifold professional activities.
J. Irwin Miller

The soul passeth from form to form; and the mansions of her pilgrimage are manifold.
Georg Hermes

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Manifold Translations

manifold in French is copie
manifold in Italian is ciclostilare, copia
manifold in Latin is multiplex
manifold in Spanish is multiplicar

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