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English
Alternative spellings
fiber italbrac|US
Etymology
From F. #French|fibre.
Noun
en-noun CE
- countable A single piece of a given material, elongated and roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibres to form thread.
#: The microscope showed several different fibres stuck to the sole of the shoe.
- uncountable Material in the form of fibres.
#: The cloth was made from strange, somewhat rough fibre.
- Dietary fibre.
#: ''Fresh vegetables are a good source of fibre.
- Moral strength and resolve.
#: The ordeal was a test of everyone�s fibre.
- mathematics The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.
#: Under this map, any two values in the fibre of a given point on the circle differ by 2π
Related terms
top2
dietary fibre
fibre bundle
fibreboard
fibreglass
fibre optics
fibrescope
fibril
fibrin
mid2
fibroid
fibrosis
fibrositis
fibrous
moral fibre
natural fibre
synthetic fibre
Translations
Bengali: BNchar|��শ (Ansh), তন�ত� (Tantu)
Chinese: 纤维 (xianwei)
Dutch: vezel f
Finnish: kuitu, säie
French: fibre#French|fibre
German: Faser f
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Italian: fibre f
Japanese: ç¹�ç¶ (ã��ã��ã��)
Portuguese: fibra f
Russian: волокно (voloknó) n
Spanish: fibra f
French
Pronunciation
w:IPA|IPA: /fib�/
w:SAMPA|SAMPA: /fibR/
Etymology
OF. fibre < L. fibra
Noun
fr-noun|f
- #English|fibre
Related terms
top2
fibranne
fibreux
fibrille
mid2
fibrine
fibrociment
fibrome
Derived terms
fibre de verre
fibre optique
Italian
Noun
fibre f
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