fiber
nounattested in dialogue
- United Kingdom//ˈfaɪ.bə//
- United States//ˈfaɪ.bɚ//
A single elongated piece of a given material, roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibers to form thread.
noun
- 1
A single elongated piece of a given material, roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibers to form thread.
The microscope showed a single blue fiber stuck to the sole of the shoe.
- 2
A material in the form of fibers.
The cloth is made from strange, somewhat rough fiber.
- 3
A material whose length is at least 1000 times its width.
Please use polyester fiber for this shirt.
- 4
Dietary fiber.
Fresh vegetables are a good source of fiber.
- 5
figurativeMoral strength and resolve.
The ordeal was a test of everyone's fiber.
- 6
The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.
Under this map, any two values in the fiber of a given point on the circle differ by 2π.
- 7
The pullback of a morphism along a global element (called the fiber of the morphism over the global element).
- 8
A kind of lightweight thread of execution.
We've seen how to create a new fiber and convert the current thread into a fiber (which continues to run after the conversion), but we have yet to focus on how to schedule a new fiber onto the current thread.
- 9
A long tubular cell found in bodily tissue.
Etymology
From French fibre, from Old French fibre, from Latin fibra.
Forms
- plural
- fibers
fiber · A single elongated piece of a given material, roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibers to form thread.
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