English

Pronunciation
:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-aɪb�(r)|-aɪb�(r)

Noun
en-noun (fibre, fibres outside US)

1. countable A single piece of a given material, elongated and 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.

1. uncountable Material in the form of fibers.

#: The cloth was made from strange, somewhat rough fiber.

1. textiles A material whose length is 1000 times its width or more.

#: Please find use polyester fiber for this shirt.

1. Dietary fiber.

#: Fresh vegetables are a good source of fiber'.''

1. Moral strength and resolve.

#: The ordeal was a test of everyone's fiber.

1. mathematics 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

Translations
Chinese: 纤维 (xianwei)
Finnish: kuitu, säie
French: fibre#French|fibre
Hungarian: rost
Italian: fibra f
Japanese: �維 (���)
Slovene: vlakno n (1), vlaknina f (4)

Related terms
dietary fiber
fiber bundle
fiberboard
fiberglass
fiber optics
fiberscope
fibril
fibrin
fibroid
fibrosis
fibrositis
fibrous
moral fibrer
natural fibrer
synthetic fiber

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