fiber
nounUS /ˈfaɪ.bɚ/ · UK /ˈfaɪ.bə/
Etymology From French fibre, from Old French fibre, from Latin fibra.
9 senses
- 1A single elongated piece of a given material, roughly…
- 2A material in the form of fibers.
- 3A material whose length is at least 1000 times its width.
- 4Dietary fiber.
- 5Moral strength and resolve.
- 6The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.
- 7The pullback of a morphism along a global element…
- 8A kind of lightweight thread of execution.
- 9A long tubular cell found in bodily tissue.
US 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.
US A material in the form of fibers.
- The cloth is made from strange, somewhat rough fiber.
Business, Manufacturing, Textiles US A material whose length is at least 1000 times its width.
- Please use polyester fiber for this shirt.
US Dietary fiber.
- Fresh vegetables are a good source of fiber.
US, Figuratively Moral strength and resolve.
- The ordeal was a test of everyone's fiber.
Mathematics, Sciences US 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.
Category theory, Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences US The pullback of a morphism along a global element (called the fiber of the morphism over the global element).
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences US A 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 thread.2008, Joe Duffy, Concurrent Programming on Windows, Pearson Education, →ISBN, unnumbered page:
- Derived terms
64 terms
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- fibril, fibrilar, fibro-, fibroblast, fibrocyte, fibroid, fibroma, fibrosis, fibrositis, fibrovascular