manifold

French translation: une multiplicité

10:13 May 18, 2017
English to French translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting / contemporary art - video
English term or phrase: manifold
Est ce que quelqu'un peux m'expliquer ce mot car après avoir regardé des définitions dans le dictionnaire, je ne comprends toujours pas son sens dans cette phrase. Merci

The tree, that symbol of symbols in which a manifold is wondrously unified into a single living thing ...
Karine Sarant
United Kingdom
Local time: 08:16
French translation:une multiplicité
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Marielle Akamatsu
France
Local time: 09:16
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3 +3une multitude
Hélène OShea
4 +1des éléments multiples
FX Fraipont (X)
4une multiplicité
Marielle Akamatsu


  

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des éléments multiples


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ici

many-fold
two-fold

FX Fraipont (X)
Belgium
Local time: 09:16
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 194

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agree  Tony M: I think it needs the addition of 'éléments' to make the sense clear.
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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +3
une multitude


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Hélène OShea
Ireland
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 28

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agree  GILOU: oui, tt simplement
41 mins

neutral  Tony M: Perhaps a bit over the top? There's all the difference in the world between a 'multiplicity' and a 'multitude'
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agree  mchd
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agree  HERBET Abel: Oui
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une multiplicité


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Marielle Akamatsu
France
Local time: 09:16
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PRO pts in category: 8
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