fiber
English
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Alternative forms
[edit]- fibre (non-US)
Etymology
[edit]From French fibre, from Old French fibre, from Latin fibra.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈfaɪ.bɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfaɪ.bə/
- Rhymes: -aɪbə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: fi·ber
Noun
[edit]fiber (countable and uncountable, plural fibers) (American spelling)
- (countable) 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.
- (uncountable) A material in the form of fibers.
- The cloth is made from strange, somewhat rough fiber.
- (textiles) A material whose length is at least 1000 times its width.
- Please use polyester fiber for this shirt.
- Dietary fiber.
- Fresh vegetables are a good source of fiber.
- (figuratively) Moral strength and resolve.
- The ordeal was a test of everyone's fiber.
- (mathematics) The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.
- Holonyms: bundle, fiber bundle
- Meronym: germ
- Under this map, any two values in the fiber of a given point on the circle differ by 2π.
- (category theory) The pullback of a morphism along a global element (called the fiber of the morphism over the global element).
- (computing) A kind of lightweight thread of execution.
- 2008, Joe Duffy, Concurrent Programming on Windows, Pearson Education, →ISBN, unnumbered page:
- 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.
- (cytology) A long tubular cell found in bodily tissue.
- Hyponyms: axon, myocyte, muscle fiber, nerve fiber
Derived terms
[edit]- acrylic fiber
- carbon fiber
- C fiber
- dark fiber
- dietary fiber
- elastic fiber
- fiber art
- fiberboard
- fiber bundle
- fibered
- fiberglass
- fiber gun
- fiberize
- fiber optic
- fiber-optic
- fiber optics
- fiber-optics
- fiber plant
- fiberscope
- fibrin, fibrinous
- fibrinogen
- fibrinolysin
- fibrous
- glass fiber
- glass fiber insulation
- high-fiber
- hollow-fiber
- man-made fiber
- man-made fiber
- microfiber
- milk fiber
- moral fiber
- muscle fiber
- muscle fiber
- natural fiber
- nerve fiber
- nerve fiber
- optical fiber
- Purkinje fiber
- Remak fiber
- Seifert fiber space
- synthetic fiber
- Tampico fiber
- with every fiber of one's being
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]fibre — see fibre
Anagrams
[edit]Danish
[edit]Noun
[edit]fiber c (definite singular fiberen, indefinite plural fibre, definite plural fibrene)
Indonesian
[edit]Noun
[edit]fiber
Synonym: serat
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Indo-European *bʰébʰrus. Doublet of beber. The noun was changed to a second declension noun, displacing the original fourth declension pattern which would have yielded *fibrus, *fibrūs.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈfi.ber/, [ˈfɪbɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfi.ber/, [ˈfiːber]
Noun
[edit]fiber m (genitive fibrī); second declension
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | fiber | fibrī |
| genitive | fibrī | fibrōrum |
| dative | fibrō | fibrīs |
| accusative | fibrum | fibrōs |
| ablative | fibrō | fibrīs |
| vocative | fiber | fibrī |
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “fiber”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin fibra (“fiber, filament”), possibly from *fidber or *findber, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to split”).
Noun
[edit]fiber m (definite singular fiberen, indefinite plural fibere or fibre or fibrer, definite plural fiberne or fibrene)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “fiber” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Noun
[edit]fiber m (definite singular fiberen, indefinite plural fibrar, definite plural fibrane)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “fiber” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
[edit]Noun
[edit]fiber c
Declension
[edit]Declension of fiber
Derived terms
[edit]- fibergarn
- fiberkabel
- fibermatta
- fibernät
- fiberrik
- glasfiber
- konstfiber
- kostfiber
- syntetfiber
- växtfiber
See also
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