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Definition 2024

optical_fibre

optical fibre

English

Alternative forms

optical fiber

Noun

optical fibre ‎(plural optical fibres)

A thin, transparent, flexible fibre, made of glass or plastic, used for transmitting light.

Translations

fibre used for transmitting light

Chinese:
Mandarin: 光纖 (zh), 光纤 (zh) ‎(guāngxiān)
Czech: optické vlákno n
Danish: lysleder c
Dutch: glasvezel (nl) m
Finnish: valokuitu (fi)
French: fibre optique (fr) f
German: Lichtwellenleiter (de) m
Greek: οπτική ίνα (el) f ‎(optikí ína)
Icelandic: ljósleiðari (is) m

Italian: fibra ottica (it) f
Japanese: 光ファイバ ‎(hikari-faiba), 光ファイバー (ja) ‎(hikari-faibā)
Macedonian: оптичко влакно n ‎(óptičko vlákno)
Polish: światłowód (pl) m
Portuguese: fibra ótica (pt) f
Romanian: fibră optică f
Russian: оптоволокно́ (ru) n ‎(optovoloknó)
Sindhi: چَشم ريش (sd) ‎(Chashm Resh)
Swedish: optisk fiber c
Tagalog: sugaaning himaymay

See also

fibre optics