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- noun Plural form of
manifold .
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Examples
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That's not to say that everyone has their private world to live in (although they could); instead, groups of like-minded individuals live in world-lets known as "manifolds", often physically overlapping one another, but separated by horizons that make people from other manifolds invisible.
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This notion of parallel 'manifolds' with their elements standing reciprocally in 'one-to-one relations,' is proving so convenient nowadays in mathematics and logic as to supersede more and more the older classificatory conceptions.
Pragmatism William James 1876
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We witness a succession of conceptual streams of thought flow through one another on a variety of physical levels, see theoretical manifolds converging, all as if before the formation of language.
G. Roger Denson: Terrence Malick's Tree of Life Plays Garden of Eden to the Family of Man G. Roger Denson 2011
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A less-expensive option is to retain the stock manifolds, but go with a cat-back (catalytic converter to tailpipe) aftermarket exhaust system.
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We witness a succession of conceptual streams of thought flow through one another on a variety of physical levels, see theoretical manifolds converging, all as if before the formation of language.
G. Roger Denson: Terrence Malick's Tree of Life Plays Garden of Eden to the Family of Man G. Roger Denson 2011
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His doctorate was in algebraic geometry, but his later academic work applied the newly created "catastrophe theory" methods of René Thom to the study, in exquisite detail, of the geometry of curves, surfaces and higher dimensional manifolds by means of the singularities of functions and mappings.
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He became the “emperor of math” in his homeland of China and inventor of mathematical structures known as Calabi-Yau manifolds that feature in string theory, the supposed “theory of everything.”
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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