manifold
Kelime Anlamı :

1. çeşitli.
2. birçok.
3. manifolt.
4. dallanma.
5. manifold.
6. branşman.
7. çokkatmanlı.
8. çok gözlü boru.
9. dağıtıcı.
10. kolektör.
Tanımlar :
1. of many kinds; numerous in kind or variety; varied; diverse.
2. exhibiting or embracing many points, features, or characteristics; complicated in character; having many parts or relations: used with nouns in the singular number: as, the manifold wisdom or the manifold grace of god (eph. iii. 10; 1 pet. iv. 10); “the manifold use of friendship,”
3. A complicated object or subject; that which consists of many and various parts; specifically, an aggregate of particulars or units; especially, in mathematics, a multitude of objects connected by a system of relations; an ensemble.
4. in kant's theory of knowledge, the total of the particulars furnished by sense before they are connected by the synthesis of the understanding; that which is in the sense and has not yet been in thought.
5. A copy or facsimile made by means of a manifold-writer, or by the use of carbon-paper in a type-writer, etc.
6. A tube, usually of cast metal, with one or more flanged or screw-threaded inlets and two or more flanged or screw-threaded outlets for pipe-connections, much used in pipe-fitting for steam-heating coils, or for cooling-coils in breweries, and in other cases where it is useful to convey steam, water, or air from a large pipe into several smaller ones. also called T-branch and header.
7. many times; in multiplied number or quantity.
8. to make manifold; multiply; specifically, to multiply impressions of by a single operation, as a letter by means of a manifold-writer, or by the use of carbon-paper in a type-writer.
9. in mathematics, given a general conception capable of various determinations or determination-modes, the totality of the determinable particulars is a manifold, of which each is an element. the manifold is continuous or discrete, according as the passage from one determination to another is continuous or discrete.
10. same as manifold-valve.
11. the third stomach of a ruminant; the manyplies; the intestines generally.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia