manifold.

1. A chamber or connected set of passages that distributes or collects a fluid flow.

2. Numerous and varied in kind.

3. A mathematical space that, near each point, resembles an ordinary Euclidean space.

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Words that belong together

• exhaust manifold
• intake manifold

On the page

A crack in the exhaust manifold leaked hot gas.

Usage notes

Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular manifold; plural manifolds. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: description, technology. Commonness: moderately common.