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Webster 1913 Edition
Fibre
{
,, Fi′ber
,Fi′bre
}Noun.
[F.
fibre
, L. fibra
.] 1.
One of the delicate, threadlike portions of which the tissues of plants and animals are in part constituted;
as, the
. fiber
of flax or of muscle2.
Any fine, slender thread, or threadlike substance;
as, a
; especially, one of the slender rootlets of a plant. fiber
of spun glass[wns=1]
Yet had no
fibers
in him, nor no force. Chapman.
4.
A general name for the raw material, such as cotton, flax, hemp, etc., used in textile manufactures.
Definition 2024
fibre
fibre
See also: fibré
English
Alternative forms
- fiber (US)
Noun
fibre (plural fibres) (Britain, Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa)
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(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.
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(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
- (category theory) Said to be of a morphism over a global element: The pullback of the said morphism along the said global element.
- (computing) A kind of lightweight thread of execution.
- A long tubular cell found in muscle tissue; myocyte.
Related terms
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Translations
single elongated piece of material
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material in the form of fibres
dietary fibre — see dietary fibre
moral strength and reserve
mathematics: preimage of a given point in the range of a map
muscle fiber
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fibʁ/
Etymology
From Old French fibre, a borrowing from Latin fibra.
Noun
fibre f (plural fibres)
Derived terms
- fibre de verre
- fibre optique