Fiber
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English
Noun
Fiber (plural Fibers)- (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.
- Under this map, any two values in the fiber of a given point on the circle differ by 2π
Related terms
- dietary fiber
- fiber bundle
- fiberboard
- fibered
- fiberglass
- fiberize
- fiber optics
- fiberscope
- fibril, fibrilar
- fibrin, fibrinous
- fibrinogen
- fibrinolysin
- fibroblast
- fibrocyte
- fibroid
- fibroma
- fibrosis
- fibrositis
- fibrous
- fibrovascular
- moral fiber
- natural fiber
- synthetic fiber
Adjectives for Fiber
fleecy; pusillanimous; secret; ancestral; civic; resonant; ligneous; crude; tough; tenacious; delicate; flaccid; genuine; spiritual; moral; quivering; unexperienced; twisting; intellectual; sensitive; coarser; maguey.
Thesaurus
Aralac, Avisco, Celanese, Chemstrand, Dacron, Dynel, Lastex, Manila, Orlon, Terylene, Velon, Vicara, acetate rayon, all that lives, alpaca, angora, animal fiber, artificial fiber, bast, biosphere, biota, body-build, brand, brawn, capillament, cashmere, cast, character, characteristic, characteristics, cilium, cirrus, cobweb, coir, complexion, composition, constituents, constitution, cotton, crasis, denier, dharma, diathesis, disposition, ecosphere, ethos, fabric, fibrilla, filament, filamentule, flagellum, flax, flesh, flora and fauna, floss, frame, genius, gossamer, grain, habit, hair, hank, hemp, horsehair, hue, humor, humors, ilk, jute, kapok, kind, linen, living matter, living nature, llama hair, makeup, merino, mohair, mold, nature, near-silk, noosphere, nylon, oakum, organic matter, organic nature, organized matter, physique, plasm, property, quality, raffia, rayon, silk, sisal, skein, somatotype, sort, spandex, spirit, spun rayon, stamp, strand, streak, stripe, suchness, suture, system, temper, temperament, tendency, tendril, tenor, thread, threadlet, tissue, tone, tussah, type, vein, way, web, wool, worsted, yarn, zephyr
Alternative forms
- fibre (chiefly British)
Etymology
From French fibre, from Old French, from Latin fibra
