Manifold vs Surface - What's the difference?
manifold | surface |
(now historical) A copy made by the manifold writing process.
(mechanics) A pipe fitting or similar device that connects multiple inputs or outputs.
(US, regional, in the plural) The third stomach of a ruminant animal, an omasum.
* 1830
(mathematics) A topological space that looks locally like the "ordinary" Euclidean space and is Hausdorff.
Various in kind or quality, diverse
Many in number, numerous; multiple, multiplied.
Complicated.
Exhibited at diverse times or in various ways.
Many times; repeatedly.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.xii:
To make manifold; multiply.
(printing) To multiply or reproduce impressions of by a single operation.
The overside or up-side of a flat object such as a table, or of a liquid.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=Foreword The outside hull of a tangible object.
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, title= (lb) Outward or external appearance.
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*(Vicesimus Knox) (1752-1821)
*:Vain and weak understandings, which penetrate no deeper than the surface .
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*:“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; and she looked it, always trim and trig and smooth of surface like a converted yacht cleared for action. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable,.
The locus of an equation (especially one with exactly two degrees of freedom) in a more-than-two-dimensional space.
(lb) That part of the side which is terminated by the flank prolonged, and the angle of the nearest bastion.
:(Stocqueler)
To provide something with a surface.
To apply a surface to something.
To rise to the surface.
To come out of hiding.
For information or facts to become known.
To work a mine near the surface.
To appear or be found.
In transitive terms the difference between manifold and surface
is that manifold is to make manifold; multiply while surface is to apply a surface to something.As an adjective manifold
is various in kind or quality, diverse.As an adverb manifold
is many times; repeatedly.manifold
English
Alternative forms
* (l)Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Anson, Somerset Co. Me., accessed 12 June 2007
- My conjecture being right he will find the third stomach, or manifolds , the seat of difficulty.
Derived terms
* manifolder * (l) * (l)Adjective
(en adjective)- The manifold meanings of the simple English word 'set' are infamous among dictionary makers.
- c1384 ... the manyfold grace of God. — I Petre 4:10 (
Wycliffe's Bible
)
- 1611 The manifold wisdom of God. —
Ephesians 3:10]. ([[w:King James Bible]
)
Derived terms
* manifold writingAdverb
(en adverb)- when his daughter deare he does behold, / Her dearely doth imbrace, and kisseth manifold .
Etymology 2
From (etyl) manifolden, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)surface
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away,
The climate of Tibet: Pole-land, passage=Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.}}
Welcome to the plastisphere, passage=[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across.}}