Manifold (disambiguation)

A manifold is an abstract mathematical space which, in a close-up view, resembles the spaces described by Euclidean geometry.

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Manifold may also refer to:

Arts and music

Manifold (comics), a fictional character in Marvel Comics publications
Manifold Records, a record label
Manifold Trilogy, by science fiction author Stephen Baxter

Engineering

Manifold (fluid mechanics), a machine element used to split or combine a gas or liquid
- Hydraulic manifold, a component used to regulate fluid flow in a hydraulic system, thus controlling the transfer of power between actuators and pumps
- Manifold (scuba), in a scuba set, connects two or more diving cylinders
- Vacuum gas manifold, a piece of apparatus used in chemistry to manipulate gases

Automotive

Exhaust manifold, an engine part which collects the exhaust gases from multiple cylinders into one pipe
Inlet manifold or "intake manifold", an engine part which supplies the air or fuel/air mixture to the cylinders

Mathematics

Manifold, an abstract mathematical space which, in a close-up view, resembles the spaces described by Euclidean geometry.
- Manifold (magazine), a former magazine of the University of Warwick mathematical community
- Topological manifold, a topological space which is a locally Euclidean Hausdorff space
  - Almost complex manifold
  - Algebraic manifold
  - Analytic manifold
  - Calabi–Yau manifold
  - Complex manifold, a manifold over the complex numbers
  - Differentiable manifold
  - Einstein manifold
  - Flag manifold
  - Flat manifold
  - G2 manifold
  - Hermitian manifold
  - Iwasawa manifold
  - Orientable manifold

People

John Manifold (1915–1985), Australian poet and critic
Sir Walter Manifold (1849–1928), Australian grazier and politician

Places

Manifold, Pennsylvania, US
River Manifold, a river in Staffordshire, West Midlands, England
- Manifold Way, a footpath and cycleway following the route of a former railway

Science

Manifold (fluid mechanics), a machine element used to split or combine a gas or liquid
- various applications such as automotive exhaust manifolds: see Engineering section
Vacuum manifold, in quantum field theory

Software

Manifold System, a geographic information system software package
ManifoldCF, Apache Software Foundation open-source project for transferring content between repositories or search indexes

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