/ˈfaɪ.bɚ/, /ˈfaɪ.bə/
OriginFrom French fibre, from Old French fibre, from Latin fibra.
- US, countableA 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.”
- US, uncountableA material in the form of fibers.
“The cloth is made from strange, somewhat rough fiber.”
- US, countable, uncountableA material whose length is at least 1000 times its width.
“Please use polyester fiber for this shirt.”
- US, countable, uncountableDietary fiber.
“Fresh vegetables are a good source of fiber.”
- US, countable, figuratively, uncountableMoral strength and resolve.
“The ordeal was a test of everyone's fiber.”
- US, countable, uncountableThe 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.”
- US, countable, uncountableThe pullback of a morphism along a global element (called the fiber of the morphism over the global element).
- US, countable, uncountableA 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”
- US, countable, uncountableA long tubular cell found in bodily tissue.
Formsfibers(plural) · fibre(alternative)