fiber
About 14.17 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun 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.
- noun A material in the form of fibers.
The cloth is made from strange, somewhat rough fiber.
- noun A material whose length is at least 1000 times its width.
Please use polyester fiber for this shirt.
- noun Dietary fiber.
Fresh vegetables are a good source of fiber.
- noun Moral strength and resolve.
The ordeal was a test of everyone's fiber.
- noun 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.
- noun The pullback of a morphism along a global element (called the fiber of the morphism over the global element).
- noun A kind of lightweight thread of execution.
Similar words
character fibre vulcanized fiber textile lint fibreglass fibreboard fabric bran optic
Often followed by
optic and is of optics in to content reinforced
Word family
fibered fibers fibre
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