English Dictionary

manifold

/ˈmænɪˌfoʊld/

noun

(historical) A copy made by the manifold writing process. / (mechanics) A pipe fitting or similar device that connects multiple inputs or outputs.

The manifold in the car engine was leaking oil.

意味（1）

(historical) A copy made by the manifold writing process.

意味（2）

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

意味（3）

(US, dialectal, chiefly in the plural) 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.

意味（4）

(mathematics) A topological space that looks locally like the "ordinary" Euclidean space ℝⁿ and is Hausdorff.

意味（5）

(computer graphics) A polygon mesh representing the continuous, closed surface of a solid object