Word Finder - manifold

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A copy made by the manifold writing process.

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

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(chiefly in the plural) The third stomach of a ruminant animal, an omasum.

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A topological space that looks locally like the "ordinary" Euclidean space \mathbb{R}^n and is Hausdorff.

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

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Various in kind or quality; diverse.

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The manifold meanings of the simple English word set are infamous among dictionary makers.

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Many in number, numerous; multiple, multiplied.

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Complicated.

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Exhibited at diverse times or in various ways.

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Many times; repeatedly.

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.

The central ideas are thus self-consciousness, as the supreme condition under which experience is subjectively possible, and the manifold details of experience as a varied and complex whole.

The officials are not well paid, and are certainly numerous; while the manifold checks and counterchecks have by no means always been sufficient to prevent dishonesty.

But if his offices were manifold, so also were his talents.

Just as London, in spite of its manifold industrial interests, is hardly to be termed a manufacturing centre, so the populous district surrounding it is not to be termed an industrial district in the sense in which that term is applied to the remaining regions of dense population which fall for consideration here.

The alimentary,or intestinal, canal varies greatly in relative length and capacity in different mammals, and also offers manifold peculiarities of form, being sometimes a simple cylindrical tube of nearly uniform calibre throughout, but more often subject to alterations of form and capacity in different portions of its course - the most characteristic and constant being the division into an upper and narrower and a lower and wider portion, called respectively the small and the large intestine; the former being arbitrarily divided into duodenum, jejunum and ileum, and the latter into colon and rectum.

Though practically invisible,' it appeals in its properties to other of our senses, so that the evidences of its presence are manifold.

In her Calvin found, to use his own words, "the excellent companion of his life," a "precious help" to him amid his manifold labours and frequent infirmities.

The influences which led to this result were manifold.

At the same time his synechological view prevented him from saying that every atom has a soul, because according to him a soul always corresponds to a unity of a physical manifold.

The Revival of Learning must be regarded as a function of that vital energy, an organ of that mental evolution, which brought into existence the modern world, with its new conceptions of philosophy and religion, its reawakened arts and sciences, its firmer grasp on the realities of human nature and the world, its manifold inventions and discoveries, its altered political systems, its expansive and progressive forces.

Then the thermostat opens, allowing the coolant to pass through the exhaust manifold and hence back to the cooling tanks.

Remove the inlet manifold and both heads, and inspect the piston crowns and valves for signs of heavy contact.

The main proof of the objective value of the view we may gain will rather lie in the degree in which it succeeds in assigning to every element of culture its due position, or in which it is able to appreciate and combine different and apparently opposite tendencies and interests, in the sort of justice with which it weighs our manifold desires and aspirations, balancing them in due proportions, refusing to sacrifice to a one-sided principle any truth or conviction which experience has proven to be useful and necessary.

By giving him a Red Button, or button of the highest rank, a Peacock's Feather, the order of the Double Dragon, a patent of nobility to his ancestors for three generations, and the title of Junior Guardian of the heir apparent, the Chinese showed their appreciation of his manifold and great services; while under the seal of the British government there were bestowed upon him the orders of C.M.G.

In writing Albanian the Latin character is employed by the Ghegs, the Greek by the Tosks; neither alphabet suffices to represent the manifold sounds of the language, and various supplementary letters or distinguishing signs are necessary.

Real knowledge consists in comprehending this all-pervading harmony as embodied in the manifold of perception, and the senses are "bad-witnesses," because they apprehend phenomena, not as its manifestation, but as "stiff and dead."

When this fundamental truth had been fully grasped, mathematicians began to inquire whether algebras might not be discovered which obeyed laws different from those obtained by the generalization of arithmetic. The answer to this question has been so manifold as to be almost embarrassing.

Influenza, again, was well known to us in 1836-1840, yet clinical observers had not traced out those sequels which, in the form of neuritis and mental disorder, have impressed upon our minds the persistent virulence of this infection, and the manifold forms of its activity.

Upon the convergence of the manifold lines of investigation rest all reconstructions, all methodical studies of biblical religion, law and prophecy, and all endeavours to place the various developments in an adequate historical framework.

As each one has received a special gift, employ it in serving one another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

Ponder in thine heart upon the unsearchable wisdom of God, and meditate on its manifold revelations.

The other probability is an air leak at the inlet manifold gasket, the brake servo hose or other small bore vac hoses.

On TDC with valves supposedly closed air is whooshing out of the inlet manifold.

In 1862 he was called on by Lord Monck, the governor-general, to form a ministry, which by manifold shifts held office till February 1864.

Notwithstanding his manifold engagements, he found time to attend to the tenderer affections; for it was during his residence at Strassburg that he married, in August 1540, Idelette de Bure, the widow of one Jean Stordeur of Liege, whom he had converted from Anabaptism.

But, then, I take funerals, and know the manifold heartache with which one tries to deal.

Indeed, it shows that for measure preserving homeomorphisms of a compact manifold, chaos is in fact the general case.

The same idea can be applied to produce chaotic homeomorphisms on any manifold.

The flange lubricators use condensed steam direct from the auxiliary manifold and when correctly used apply a steady trickle of water to the flange.

Lightly grease the top gasket and loosely fit the inlet manifold to the cylinder.

We consider the phenomenon of forced symmetry breaking in a symmetric Hamiltonian system on a symplectic manifold.

Opposite to an unstable manifold, both are types of invariant manifold.

In the mathematical literature this set is called an inertial manifold.

Secure the inlet manifold evenly do not over tighten.

Primary in last few months has been the exhaust manifold cracked.

The final step is to fit the vacuum pipe from intake manifold to servo.

Also bought a ' Boy Racer ' (TM) induction manifold pipe - need to get some bits tig'd onto it.

New front shock absorbers, up rated by 25 %, a SS sports exhaust with extractor manifold.

Pipework connecting discharge appliances to SVP manifold, should be designed not to cause self siphonage.

Assembled with 71mm side squish head, 26mm carburetor and AF conversion manifold and ultra performance exhaust.

Those solutions belong (or asymptotically tend) to a certain invariant linear subspace - cluster manifold.

Thus it has come to pass that the muscles of the hind limbs are, like their framework, more easily compared with those of reptiles and mammals than are the wings, whilst within the class of birds they show an enormous amount of variation in direct correlation with their manifold requirements.

The complexity of modern knowledge and the interrelation of its different branches are often insufficiently realized, and that by writers who differ widely in the application of such material as they use to their particular views of the manifold problems of the Old Testament.

But there were many, including the empress herself, who looked upon him as a man of manifold and commanding genius.

Sufferers from mental disease are still regarded too much as troublesome persons to be hidden away in humane keeping, rather than as cases of manifold and obscure disease, to be studied and treated by the undivided attention of physicians of the highest skill.