"Manifold" is a word in ENGLISH
The third stomach of a ruminant animal.
Various in kind or quality; many in number; numerous;
multiplied; complicated.
Exhibited at divers times or in various ways; -- used to
qualify nouns in the singular number.
A cylindrical pipe fitting, having a number of lateral
outlets, for connecting one pipe with several others.
A copy of a writing made by the manifold process.
To take copies of by the process of manifold writing;
as, to manifold a letter.
The idea was that you could grow a system like the Internet one network at a time and then interconnect them. In some sense, the most important thing was the invention of the architecture protocols that enabled the Internet.
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Consisting of a multitude; manifold in number or condition; as, multitudinous waves.
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